Early Times Report Jammu, Oct 29 One Day Conference of employees and pensioners of tehsil Bhadarwah was held under the aegis of All J&K Low Paid Employees Federation under the chairmanship of Abdul Hafeez Fani Member State Committee LPEF. State President of the Federation Abdul Majid Khan was the Chief Guest on the occasion who inaugurated the conference. While addressing Khan severely criticized the state and central governments for anti people and anti working class policies due to which prices of all essential items of daily use are touching the sky and poor masses of the country and state are at the verge of starvation. The speakers demanded that 6th pay commission arrears be paid in two instalments in cash on the central pattern, revision of minimum daily wage, enhancement of medical allowance to Rs 1000 per month, regularization of daily wagers, early redressal of grievances of teachers, clerks, pensioners, class 4th employees, safaikaramcharis, dailywagers, village guards, numberdars, anganwari workers and employees of PHE,PDD,PWD,Health & Medical,Animal Husbandry, Horticulture, RDD, Agriculture, Forest, Cooperatives,Municipality and all other departments. Abdul Hafeez Fani called upon the employees and pensioners to remain united under the banner of Federation and continue their struggle for early redressal of grievances. Fani further demanded the restoration of old hospital and extended full support to Bhadarwah Hospital Bachao Front. Prominent among those who spoke on the occasion include Isher Dass Sangra(Billawar),Babu Ram(Akhnoor), Noor Hussain Malik, Syed Ahmed Shah& Abdul Majid Shah (Kishtwar), Shakeel Ahmed Dev, Gh Hassan Pampori& Niyaz Ahmed Rahi (Doda), Shabir Ahmed Mir (Banihal), Abdul Rashid Malik (Gandoh),Bhagat Singh Manhas, Anand Pal Gupta, Mool Raj Manhas, MA Khateeb,Omkar Bhagat, Suresh Sharma,Chuni Lal and Gohar Fani. |