J&K PDL, TDL electric employees continue 72 hour protest
Anantnag: All J&K PDL, TDL Electric employees on Thursday continued with their 72-hour long protest at Hamzapora Anantnag in south Kashmir.
The protesting employees blamed the authorities for not resolving their long pending demands, saying that if their issues are not addressed immediately the daily wagers working in KPDCL and its allied sections will go for indefinite strike.
The workers said that strike is going on at different places across J&K from last two days which will continue on Friday as well.
Leaders of the association alleged that officials in Civil Secretariat are deliberately delaying their regularization.
“The officials do not want our miseries to end,” the protestors said.
“PDDs Departmental Promotional Committee decided that daily wagers would be regularized as per available vacancies in 2019 but at the same time officials in Civil Secretariat are deliberately delaying our adjustment,” they said
They added that issues like relaxation in age/qualification bar, compensation and rehabilitation to injured personnel, regularization of services, withdrawal of pending salaries, files pending in civil secretariat and division offices and others are not being attended since years, causing panic and concern among daily wagers who always put their lives at stake during odd and adverse weather conditions.
“The files pertaining to relaxation of age and qualification bar are pending till 2018 and no orders are being passed over it,” they alleged.
They further added that the government had adjusted few kin of those who had lost their lives in the line of duty but unfortunately their salaries are withheld without any logical reason.
They demanded that pending files in division offices should be immediately sent to Chief Engineer’s office and withheld salaries of System & Operation (S&O) employees should also be released.
“We met higher ups several times including Principal Secretary PDD who assured us that long pending demands would be taken into account but despite passing of eight-months, nothing has been done so far,” they said.
They said chief engineer had promise on Jan 14 that all our issues will be redressed but on ground nothing has been done.
Jahangeer Ganaie
