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| Is PDD deliberately killing its daily wagers one by one? | | Poor souls have no protective gears, safety equipment; Are compelled to climb electric poles, play with their lives | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Apr 15: The unabated deaths of PDD daily wagers in Jammu and Kashmir has once again put a question mark on the efficacy of the present LG administration in protecting lives of the poor workers who are compelled to jump into the death wells by the authorities.
This year in the span of just three months, more than seven PDD dailywagers were electrocuted to death. They left their families in absolute wretched states and their children devastated with no secure future. The government also is in no mood to adopt a human approach vis-à-vis the plight of these poor daily wagers. They have no guarantee that their services will be regularized neither they have the income through which their families could sustain themselves.
Netizens are calling these deaths akin to murder and claim that the government was directly responsible for their killings. “They have no insurance cover. They have no sustainable income. Their services are yet to be regularized and yet you are pushing them into the death well. They have no protective gears and no safety equipment in the field. Yet they are compelled to climb the electric polls and play with their lives. The government is directly responsible for these killings,” says a Jammu based official.
Reports inform that the labourers who are dying due to electrocution belong to the lower income backgrounds of the society and their families suffer after their death. Also, these casual labourers don’t come under SRO 43 and hence after their death, the families face tough times to make both ends meet. There are, as per the insiders, several families who were left in lurch after their sole bread earners died. Around 9,000 casual labourers are working in the PDD and they don’t come under any of the welfare schemes of the department, which are mostly for the permanent staff. They also don’t get any compensation from the government after any untoward incident. Insiders said that scores of these casual labourers have also lost their limbs and have become incapacitated while undertaking repairs and maintenance of the transmission network.
As per the reports Jammu and Kashmir has the highest electrocution cases across the country and that the lack of supervision by the senior staff has also led to rise in these cases. Furthermore, there have been instances wherein senior officials were found absent at the incident spot. Also, the staff including the casual labourers were lacking training institute for imparting orientation to the casual laborers before sending them to the field. |
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