NMC demands separate wage head for each dept

Tribune News Service

Jammu, July 26

The National Mazdoor Conference (NMC) today urged Finance Minister Haseeb Drabu to allot separate wage head for each department at the earliest for regular disbursement of wages to 61,000 daily wagers.

Addressing a meeting here, NMC president Subash Shastri pointed out that these daily wagers had not been paid their wages for the last 4-5 years.

“It is strange that the daily wagers were neither regularised by the previous regime nor paid their legitimate wages for years together,” said the NMC president.

Appreciating the pro-working class approach of Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed and the Finance Minister, Shastri hoped that the long-pending demand of daily wagers would be met at the earliest.

He appealed to the government to create separate wage head in the meantime, particularly in the PWD, PHE, PDD and Irrigation and Flood Control Department, for regular disbursal of wages to the daily wagers. “This interim measure will go a long way to redress their grievances in the first instance,” Shastri said.

Rajan Babu Khajuria, BS Jamwal, Sham Lal Sharma and others also spoke on the occasion.