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| Employees divide on regional lines, office work suspended across Jammu | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Aug 19- Cracks developed in Joint Consultative Committee (JCC), an amalgam of various employees unions and associations in Jammu and Kashmir today when its Jammu chapter defied the decision to call off the proposed two-day strike against “pay anomalies" and went ahead with jamming official work today. People had to face hardships as the work in most of the government offices in Jammu remained affected due to the two-day strike called by the JCC. Work in most of the departments remained affected, as a majority of the employees did not attend offices.” The strike would continue tomorrow also as per schedule. We will go ahead with the program given to employees", senior member JCC Ram Kumar Sharma said.
The striking employees, according to JCC, have been asked to assemble in Exhibition Ground tomorrow at 10 am sharp for holding a massive rally.
JCC Members from Kashmir Mohammed Maqbool, Famat Ahmed, Ghulam Rasool Deewani, Mushtaq Ahmed Badana and Javed Akhtar are reported to have warned the government not to play the tricky tactics of dividing the employees and said that such tactics can not derail the morale of the employees and instead would aggravate the situation.
However, All Jammu and Kashmir Government Employees Joint Action Committee Jammu in a handout has endorsed the decision taken by the JCC at Srinagar to call off the 2-days proposed strike following assurance by the government.
Government offices, schools and other Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs) in Jammu wore a deserted look and normal work was hampered.
The JCC leaders in Jammu also expressed serious concern over the divisive politics of the state government aimed at creating rift among state government employees from two regions.
Since morning the employees in Jammu struck work in their offices and assembled outside their offices shouting slogans against the state government.
Impressive gatherings were organized outside Jammu Municipal Corporations office, sheep husbandry office, health department, GGM Science College, railhead office complex, GMS, SMGS, Gandhinagar hospital, etc.
Through out the day the employees staged protest dharnas and reminded government of its assurances and commitments made earlier during high level talks.
"Our strike was successful and working of government offices was totally paralyzed today", Ram Kumar Sharma, senior JCC member and head of Jammu panel told reporters here.
"We are not demanding anything which was not settled between us and the state government", added Abdul Gafar Bhat said here in Jammu.
Instead of resolving the issues and creating conducive atmosphere for the talks the state government authorities, through its paid agents, are trying to engineer a rift among employees, the Jammu based leaders alleged.
The Jammu based employees leaders have simply rejected the talks held between the cabinet sub-committee and the JCC leaders of Kashmir region. "How can we become party to decisions where we were not even present or invited", the JCC leaders said pointing accusing fingers towards employees’ leaders and the state government authorities instrumental in breaking the employees’ unity
Reports from Kathua, Samba, Udhampur, Reasi, Poonch, Rajouri, Doda, Ramban and Kishtwar districts said strike was observed in government offices and schools. "The strike was peaceful. There was no report of any untoward incident during the strike by the employees in the Jammu region", a police officer said.
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