Early Times Report Jammu, Sept 20: Employees Joint Action Committee (EJAC-R) has appealed Governor SP Malik to stop unbundling of Power Development Department (PDD). According to press release, a meeting was held today under the Chairmanship of its State President Babu Hussain Malik alongwith Yashpal Sharma, Kulwant Singh Sambyal, Hari Singh, Naresh Sharma, Vikas Chander, Munish Sharma, Arun Sharma, Ansuya Gupta, Satish Dutta, Anil Singh Salathia, Pawan Kumar, Naresh Kumar, Arun Bakshi, , Rohit George, Tanveer Hussain, Younis Rahi, Neeraj Sharma, Mohd Sadiq, Hafiz-ul-Rehman, Farida Bano, Lekh Raj Sharma, Ashok Singh, Ali Mohd, Madan Sangral, Bhopinder Singh, Issar Ahmad Khan and others to discuss various issues of the employees. Babu Hussain Malik proposed that the government should work for modernization and transparency in the PDD as the department has already achieved 100% target as set out in the Saubhagaya Scheme launched by the Union Government. He fully supported the call given by Power Employees Coordination Committee for 72 hours strike w.e.f 24-09-2019. Babu Husain said that there is no roadmap for employees and no transparency was involved in unbundling and claimed that there is no transition plan for the more than 30000 employees working in PDD. Moreover there is no policy for the future of daily wagers, where will these daily wagers will go, who had given their 10 to 20 years in the service of the department, he said, adding, it will led to an era of capitalism as the companies are concerned about their own monetary benefits and will force the employees as dictators. EJAC (R) will not allow any type of dictatorship with the employees fraternity and will fight till end for the rights of employees and a state wide agitation will be launched throughout the state. |