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GRS assigned frontline door to door COVID-19 survey seek protection kits
4/11/2020 10:09:03 PM
Early Times Report

Jammu, Apr 11: As the Government of India prepare for all out war against the COVID 19 pandemic that had claim the lives of more than 90000 and effected more than 16 lakh people worldwide, the Gram Rozgar Sewak commonly known as GRS are emerging as the frontline workers who had played key role in tracking down the people in respective Panchayats and now Government has assigned them additional job to track the travel history of the people by way off door to door survey of people in villages beside they (GRS) along with other employees of the Rural Development Department and Panchayat Raj (RDD&PR) has been assigned the task of preparing the masks and its distribution at Panchayat level thus making them vulnerable to infection as a result of which there is chaos among these consolidated employees of the RDD&PR who are being merely paid Rs. 6000-7000 per month as compared to other regular employees of the department who had been assigned with less risky job as compared to GRS who are now demanding protection kits as well as incentives at par with the regular Government employee.
Speaking to “Early Times”, President GRS Association Kishtwar Ajaiz Ahmed Sheikh said that since there appointments in the RDD&PR department—they are playing its part in every situation whether its Assembly Elections, Parliamentary Elections, Health Survey, implementation of Government run schemes, Agriculture survey and many other responsibilities assigned by the Government and the department from time to time added that even under present situation which is an open war against unseen enemy—GRS are playing its part in tracking down the people who had travel history from respective Panchayats.
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