EArly Times Report
JAMMU, Oct 12: Need-based and casual workers of Jammu Power Distribution Corporation Limited (JPDCL) continued their strike in support of their demands, including release of pending wages.
Raising slogans in support of their demands, the protesting workers said that JPDCL has released wages of 2707 workers and left out 462 workers. They demanded the authorities concerned to release the pending wages of last seven years of left out workers and also bring them under NIC portal.
“We appeal the administration to look into our genuine demands sympathetically as our families are suffering badly. We are unable to pay school fee of our children,” they said.
They explained that 3,169 Casual Labour/Need Base employees have been working in the JPDCL for the last more than 15 years, who are yet to be regularized.
Out of these, 2707 are getting their salaries and 462 workers are without NIC and thus not getting any salaries.
The case of 408 workers, whose record is already pending with the MD JPDCL, needs to be sent to the Finance Department for NIC so that they would also get the salaries, they said.
Besides regularization and release of wages, other demands of the protesters included registration of Casual/Need base workers on NIC portal and implementation of SRO 381 in letter and spirit. Wage enhancement from Rs 6750 to Rs 18,500 per month was also demanded.
The protesters requested the Government to take immediate action in the matter so that all the workers may get their salaries.
Those who addressed the protest include Vinod, Nasib, Tarsem, Ajay Kumar, Subash Kumar, Ashish Verma, Gourav Sharma, Gurmail, Gureaj, Zanaid, Kabir Choudhary, Bashir, Romesh, Sham, Swami Raj, Mukesh, Akhyar Choudhary and Javed Malik. |
