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| Safai Walas, chowkidars of education deptt waiting for regularization since decades | | | Shakeel A Khan
SRINAGAR, Feb 28: With manifold increase in the salaries of government employees, there seems to be no place for the employees who have been working as Safai Walas for decades together in the Education Department. These Safai Walas/chowkidars who have been working in the Education Departments, have not been entitled to the service benefits despite serving the department for the last 25 years. These chowkidars say that the government has no idea about their miseries. "I have been working in the Education department for the last 20 years as the Safai wala/chowkidar. I am about to turn fifty but the authorities have failed to regularize my services. I feel that I have wasted the precious period of my life," said Fayaz Ahmad from Budgam.He said that not to talk of the regularization he is being paid the sum of Rs.300 as a token of salary despite spending half of my life in the department. What justice can be done to the people at home with 300 rupees, he asked. Most of the chowkidars who have been working in the department, have donated their land for the schools and in return they were given the employment with a promise that their services will be regularized. But as a matter of fact they continue to suffer. "The people who are working as chowkidars in the department for a long time now, had been adjusted in the department in lieu of the land they provided. We were given repeated assurances by the authorities that our services will be regularized," said Imtiyaz Ahmad (name changed) from Baramulla.Imtiyaz went on saying that the people like him working as the chowkidars in the department have reached to their advance ages. The only thing we get against the services is just 300 rupees and as according to him this sum is arranged from the pool money of the school.These people are apprehensive thinking that where shall they go once they attain the old hood because they are not entitled to pension or gratuity under the given circumstances. "Our concerns keep on growing with the each passing day because our children won't get benefited from the job we have done for whole of our lives. Instead we will be a burden on their shoulders once we become incapable of doing something," said some chowkidars while talking to Early Times.These people have exuded confidence in the new government led by Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, which will be in place in a few hours from now, to come to their rescue. These people hope that the new government will understand their problem and solve it on the humanitarian basis. |
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