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JAMMU: Thousands of daily-wage employees of the Jal Shakti Department (formerly PHE Department), who are on 72-hour strike in the Jammu division, on last day of the strike asked government to frame fresh regularization policy for them or enforce SRO 64 of 1994 without any delay.
Thousands of Jal Shakti Department daily rated workers, land donor worker assembled in premises of Chief Engineer Office, Jal Shakti Department Jammu and raised slogans in favour of their demands. Deepak Gupta, president, All J&K PHE, ITI-Trained and CP Workers’ Association, said that this strike was to remind the present rulers of LG administration about the unresolved demands of PHE employees particularly the regularization of daily rated workers who have served the department more than 28 years. He said the UT administration did not reach out to the daily-wagers after 72-hour Kaam Choro Hartal therefore they decided to extend ongoing strike for more 48 hours/ He further expressed that they have nothing to do with the fresh and direct recruitment drive of the Govt because issue of daily wagers is totally different because our daily wagers are already govt employees and demanding their regularization. Darvinder Pal Singh, Jeevan Singh, Subhash Rakwal, Bhanu Sambyal, Sajad, Manjeet Singh , Shamishu Din, Vijay Kumar, Subhash, Bhupinder Singh and Rajinder were also present on the occasion.