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| ULB employees protest abolition order of Gulmarg, Pahalgam MCs | | Sanitation services across Kashmir go for a six | | Jehangir Rashid
SRINAGAR, May 25: Sanitation services across the Kashmir valley were badly hit today due to the strike carried out by employees of 47 urban local bodies against the recent government decision of abolishing the municipal committees of Gulmarg and Pahalgam.
Reports reaching here said that hundreds of employees of the local bodies assembled at Tangmarg and carried out protest demonstration against the government decision of abolishing the two municipal committees. The protesters threatened to intensify their struggle in case the government did not revoke the order.
Led by Joint Consultative Committee (JCC) member and President of his faction of Employees Joint Action Committee (EJAC), Abdul Qayoom Wani the protesters reached the main market of Tangmarg and carried out demonstrations against the government order.
The protesters resorted to high pitch sloganeering at the protest venue while demanding immediate roll-back of the order.Talking to reporters, Qayoom said that JCC would not hesitate in resorting to agitation in case the government did not revoke its order.
He said the programme would be made public after May 28 adding that the amalgam of the employees would not allow the abolition of the municipal committees of Gulmarg and Pahalgam.
"Scores of employees are working in the two municipal committees and these people would turn jobless once the abolition order is put into practice. We will not allow this to happen and in this regard a comprehensive protest programme would be carried out. Departments are the not personal property of any minister or bureaucrat and any move aimed to wind up any department or its organ would be fought vigorously," said Qayoom.
Scores of employees also assembled at Pahalgam in South Kashmir and raised slogans against the government decision of abolishing the two municipal committees. The employees of the Municipal Committee, Pahalgam vowed their support to the programme given by the Urban Local Bodies Employees United Forum (ULBEUF).Meanwhile, ULBEUF Chairman, Manzoor Ahmad Pampori has expressed concern over the alleged dismantling of the quarters of the sweepers and other sanitation staff by Chief Executive Officer, Pahalgam Development Authority, Reyaz Ahmad Wani at Pahalgam. Manzoor said the action is uncalled for since the assets of the Municipal Committee, Pahalgam are yet to be transferred to the concerned development authority.
It would be in place to mention here that Commissioner Secretary, Housing and Urban Development Department, Bipul Pathak issued an order on May 19, 2015 under which it has been ordered that Municipal Committees of Pahalgam and Gulmarg would be abolished. Interestingly, both these committees were established during the Dogra rule dating back to more than seven decades.
The order issued by Commissioner Secretary, Housing and Urban Development Department is totally in 'contravention' to the directions issued by chief minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed during a meeting held in April this year.
While as the chief minister had passed directions that municipal committees of Pahalgam and Gulmarg should be brought under the administrative and financial control of concerned Tourism Development Authorities, the concerned Commissioner Secretary issued an 'arbitrary' asking for the winding up of the two municipal committees. |
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