Srinagar, Jan 4: The government employees, casual labourers, workers, and pensioners on Wednesday asked the government to resolve their long-pending issues.
Staging a protest under the banner of Jammu and Kashmir Government Employees, Casual Labourers, Workers and Pensioners United Front at Press Enclave here, they raised slogans in favour of their demands.
The protesters urged upon the government to form a comprehensive regularization policy for all casual labourers engaged after 1994.
The protesters asked the government to release all the pending wages of the contractual workers who, they said, have been pushed to the wall and are living in miserable conditions because of the unavailability of money.
“I have been serving in the Water Works Department for the last 10 years. I am giving my best for the department and working amid all odds and evils. I have not been paid for the last seven months. I am facing tremendous hardships in managing the day-to-day expenses of my family,” said Abdul Ahamd of Budgam.
“I am not able to fulfill the needs of my family. I am even not able to pay the school fees of my children. There is a likelihood that they will be struck off from the rolls if I will not pay the fees within a couple of days. If salary is not released at the earliest, my family will die of starvation,” he added.
Speaking on the occasion, General Secretary of Employees Joint Action Committee Third Front, Ghulam Rasool Gillani, said when the central government has already implemented the 7th pay commission, why is the state government reluctant in implementing the same here.
“It is we people who run the government on the ground. It is by our efforts that the government is able to accomplish its agenda of development, governance, etc. We appeal the state government to resolve all genuine issues of employees without any delay,” he said.
He warned the state government not to test the patience of the employees.
Gillani said if the issues confronting employees are not resolved, they will be left with no option but to intensify their agitation.
“The onus of any untoward situation arising from our agitation will directly be on the government,” he said.
Source : Kashmir monitor
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