| JKNPP seeks release of salaries of DRWs, casual labourers | | |  Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 21: Jammu and Kashmir National Panthers Party (JKNPP) Chairman Harshdev Singh has sought release of long pending wages and regularization of services of DRWs, Need based workers, Casual labourers and contractuals working in various government departments including PHE, M&RE, PWD, I&FC, Female multi-purpose health workers, NRHM employees, Anganwadi workers, MG-NREGA employees besides SPOs, Contractual lecturers and other lower rung employees.
He was addressing a press conference in Jammu.
Lambasting the State government for its callous attitude towards nearly 62000 DRW's, Need based workers and Casual labourers working in various departments viz-a-viz PDD, PWD, PHE, R&B, I&FC, Health & Medical Education, Forest, Horticul-ture, Agriculture, TDAs, Social Welfare who were forced to work like bonded labourers without paying their meager wages for several years.
He said that they had been languishing in open protesting for their genuine demands of regularization of services and release of long pending wages but regretted that BJP despite being an alliance partner in the previous government had failed to project the issues of Daily Wagers inside the Assembly. Deploring the miserable plight of the Female Multipurpose Health Workers (FMPHWs), he said that the issue of their salary head under Health & Family welfare had not been resolved despite continuous hard struggle and the erstwhile BJP-PDP government had divested them of their due wages for a long time.
He mocked the saffron slogan of 'Beti Padhao, Beti Bachao' as a cruel joke sprinkling salts on the wounds of the daughters of the soil who were batton charged by the police during the dark rule of sinister combine. He lamented that while the families of such employees were pushed to starvation and other miseries, the power intoxicated ex-Saffron MLA's had doubled their salaries and other perks in one voice during their tenure.
Expressing his anguish over the exploitation of thousands of NHRM employees seeking regularization of their services, Harsh Dev Singh said that these employees included doctors, ASHA workers, paramedics and managerial staff who were working tirelessly and selflessly on paltry wages despite all the difficulties they were confronted with.
Parshotam Parihar State Secretary Panthers Trade Union was also present in the press conference. |
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