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| Casual labourers of PDD crave for compensation policy | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Aug 17 : Despite putting their lives at risk, casual-labourers or need based employees working in the Jammu and Kashmir Power Development Department (JKPDD) have no concrete compensation policy framed by the government.
The casual-labourers whose number is more than five thousand only in the Kashmir Valley claim to be the back-bone of the PDD department. Notably, the concerned department is not even recognizing them after facing all the risks and electrocuted or lost lives.
These employees claim that despite working on a meagre salary, but the government has done nothing to enhance their salaries which are pending with the department from last four years. However for them the irony is different. Government has framed compensation policy which only covers the permanent employees of JKPDD and not the casual or need based employees which they claim is "sheer discrimination" with them.
Mudasir Ahmed Yatoo, once a need-based employee with Power Development Department (PDD) was known for his skill of climbing slippery electric poles without the support of ladder but now he had become dependent on others even to wear clothes after his arm was amputated by doctors due
to the electric shock. Hailing from south Kashmir's Hangalbugh area of Kulgam district, 37 year old Yatoo had worked as a need based employee with PDD for almost ten years and had climbed many a slippery electric poles during this time. However, on first week of August, 2014 one episode changed his
whole life as on the fateful day he got electrocuted after which his arm was amputated."I have given almost my all life to the PDD during which I climbed numerous electric poles, repaired several electric wires but after the incident, adversely I am not yet to acknowledge by the government," he said.Yatoo said that he was the lone bread earner for his family but after the incident, his family is now dependent on his relatives.
"We don't have any source of income as my two kids and the old parents can't work because of their age factor," he said adding that he has approached not only the PDD officials but also some ministers but his plea went on deaf ears. Yatoo is not the only person in the Kashmir Valley who has not been given compensation after he was electrocuted but there are hundreds of such cases.
As per the JKPDD Daily Wagers Association Kashmiri, there are around 250 cases of electrocution in the state.
He said that at least 150 employees have lost their lives with electrocution in past a decade. Shamshad Ahmad Mir, a resident of Chak-Yaripora Village in south Kashmir's Bijbehara area died due to electrocution on 10 April, 2010 but the family received compensation only after they approached the labor court. Mir was working as a casual-labour in the PDD. His brother in law, Nazir Ahmad said that Mir died due to the negligence of employees posted at receiving station. "Mir died while repairing the electricity service line of his village. We were forced to approach labor court for compensation, PDD officials never bothered about our miserable living condition," Ahmad said. |
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