Early Times Report
Jammu, May 29: National Mazdoor Conference (NMC) Subash Shastri today urged Finance Minister Haseeb Drabu to allot separate wage head for each department for regular disbursement of wages to 61,000 daily wagers and earmarked special funds for implementing the recommendations of the 7th pay commission and announcement in this regards be made in the 2016-17 budget be presented in the state legislature tomorrow. Addressing a largely attended NMC workers meet here, Shastri pointed out that these daily wagers had not been paid their wages for the last 4-5 years causing lot of hardships to them. "It is strange that the daily wagers were neither regularized by the previous regime nor paid their legitimate wages for years together," said shastri. This Inhuman approach on the part of previous regime has been discriminatory towards the daily rated workers who have suffered along, he added. He appealed to the government to create separate wage head in the meantime, particularly in the PWD, PHE, PDD and Irrigation and Flood Control Department, for regular disbursal of wages to the daily wagers. "This interim measure will go a long way to redress their grievances in the first instance," Shastri said. |