| Release arrears wages of contractuals, DRWs before Diwali: Harsh | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Oct 26: With various sections of employees particularly the contractual and daily rated workers protesting on the roads for the timely release of their salaries and wages, Harsh Dev Singh JKNPP Chairman and Former Minister called upon the govt to release all arrears of such employees before Diwali festival.
He said that it was ironical that govt employees including the DRWs of PHE, PWD, M&RE, NHM employees, RETs, MGNREGA workers, Anganwari and Asha workers besides other categories of govt employees were forced to take to streets even for the release of their negligible wages in a govt that had promised them 'good governance' and 'Achhe din' prior to elections. He further called for issuance of appropriate orders for delinking the salary of RETs and FMPHWs from central sources of funding as assured earlier with immediate effect as a Diwali gift to the said sections of employees.
He regretted that with the Health Deptt having created two different heads for salary purposes for Male and Female Health workers respectively, it was the latter who were deprived of regular payment of salaries with the same kept pending for periods ranging from 8-12 months. It was strange that while Male Health workers received their salaries on regular basis, the Female workers, having a separate salary head, were made to wait for months, he said. "This had promoted not only gender bias in the Deptt but had caused severe problems and economic hardships for the Female MPHWs. Not only that the FMPHWs of Jammu region faced further discrimination on promotion front. While the DPC of their counterparts in Kashmir region had been held, the Jammu based FMPHWs were deprived of the same for the last five years", regretted Singh.
Flaying the Health Deptt for its criminal apathy towards the genuine concerns of the agitating female employees, he sought early settlement of their issues in a time bound manner. He said that with such employees made to sit on roads for the last around 2 months, the govt had made the most contemptuous mockery of its own slogan of "Beti Bachao-Beti Padao". Not only the FMPHWs but the Anganwari, NHM, Asha workers and contractual female lecturers had also been forced to take to roads during the saffron rule which otherwise made haughty, supercilious claims of empowerment of women. |
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