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| SRTC employees protest clash with police in Kashmir | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Sep 29
Totally dejected with the response of the state government towards addressing their immediate woes angry employees of the State Road transport corporation sitting on strike for last 34 days on tuesday organised protest demonstration outside their office at Bikram chow demanding early release of salaries pending for last five months.
The SRTC employees took out a march from the office of the SRTC to handover memorandum to the divisional commissioner.
The angry employees were seen shouting slogans demanding release of salaries .
One of the employees leaders Paramjeet Singh said that if the state government would continue to ignore their silent pleas the SRTC employees would be left with no other optionbut to resort to violent means to extract their share of salaries from the state.
" We are suffering for past five months but the state government has not bothered to resolve our long pending demand of regular payment of salaries and adjustment of sixth pay commission", agitated employees said.
Meanwhile, condemning police action on their fellow colleagues in Srinagar the SRTC employees in Jammu blamed the state government and the management of the SRTC for the complete mess in the SRTC.
Meanwhile in Srinagar ,thousands of Jammu and Kashmir State Road Transport Corporation (SRTC) employees on Tuesday afternoon took to streets in and staged an anti-Government demonstrations demanding immediate disbursal of their long pending their salaries.
The employees along with their families had assembled at Jehangir chowk in Srinagar to proceed towards the civil secretariat, but were stopped by the police, officials said.
According to reports, several people were injured, some of them critically, when the police had to resort to baton charge and use water canons to disperse the employees.
The protesters alleged that Jammu and Kashmir Government was not taking any note of their demands.
“We want the government to take any action on our demands, Omar (Omar Abdullah, Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir) is not serious about us. Our kids were kicked off from schools and he (Omar) didn''t even realize this, this happened last year also and we were starving, but nothing has happened,” said Usra Jan, a protester.
“At least they (state officials) should consider about us, about our department and you can see what is happening here,” Jan added.
Earlier, over 4,50,000 employees had observed a two-day pen down strike to press for their demands.
The demands include enhancement of retirement age from 58 to 60, regularisation of contractual, ad-hoc and casual workers as per the merit, amendment in the Wage Act including increase in wages of the daily wagers and casual labourers from current Rs.2,100 monthly to Rs.5,000.
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