SRINAGAR: : Expressing serious concern over the administration’s failure to fulfil its promise of regularising daily wagers, casual labourers, scheme workers, contractual workers and others, working in various departments, CPI (M) leader Mohammad Yousuf Tarigami today said these poor workers are already suffering due to the non-payment of wages for months together.
“Today hundreds of these casual labourers and daily wagers held protest demonstrations at Press Enclave Srinagar demanding their regularization but they were lathi-charged and scores of them were detained,” said Tarigami.
“Thousands of daily wagers and casual labourers are involved in implementing the programs and policies of the Government and play vital roles in keeping all essential services running are being deprived of their rights by the Government,” he said.
Tarigami further said: “Despite the unparalleled efforts of these temporary employees, their services have not been regularized till date by the successive regimes even though they have furnished all the prerequisite formalities and other information sought from time to time.”
“The weaker and poorer sections of the society have been totally neglected by the Government which has severely hit their means of livelihood. Most of these workers are the sole breadwinners of their respective families and how will they manage their day-to-day expenditure if the Government doesn’t pay them their wages? Till their regularization, they shall be brought under the Preview of Minimum Wages Act, keeping in view the high inflation,” he added.
The CPI(M) leader assured full support to the protesting Casual labourers, Daily Wagers in their struggle. He demanded early release of those who have been detained.
