Congress urges government to concede the demands of agitating Daily Wagers

Jammu, 10 February, 2020:-                 J&K Pradesh Congress Committee has urged the Govt. to consider the long pending demands including regularization and regular wages of agitating daily wagers, need based, ITI trained, CP workers and other such categories of workers in PHE, Irrigation, Flood Control and other Departments.

Extending support to the agitating workers, JKPCC Chief spokesperson Ravinder Sharma visited their dharna site at Sunderbani was apprised that PHE workers  of  various categories  who were working for the past several years on meager wages, that too on payment of these wages on few intervals in a year only, were promised regularization by the successive governments especially BJP.  They regretted that the UT Administration  has not appreciated their genuine demands,  as a result they have chosen path of protest and agitation and suspended work. This has affected the water supply in most parts in Jammu and Kashmir, but the government has yet to respond positively to their demands.

Mr. Sharma urged upon the UT Administration immediately concede their long pending demands and to restore water supply in the larger interest of general public. He also demanded that all genuine demands of the PHE employees of various categories be addressed, in a time bound manner, as these daily wagers are working for 10 to 15 years or more, on occasional payment of meager wages.

He said their salaries and wages for over 57 months are pending and there is no system or punctuality in payment of wages to them on regular basis, which is great injustice. He sought sympathetic view on their demands, at the earliest, since their families and children are facing great hardships in the absence of any regular payments of wages and lack of regularization policy.