Srinagar: Casual labourers and need based workers of various government departments Monday staged a protest in support of their demands including regularization and release of pending wages.
Scores of casual laborers of different department assembled in front of District Development Commissioners office in South Kashmirs Shopian town and shouted slogans against state government for not conceding their long pending demands.
The protestors including casual labourers of PWD, Floriculture, PHE, Forest, Wild Life, Soil Conservation, SDA and Agriculture Department were protesting under the banner of J&K National Trade Union Front (JKNTUF).
Addressing the workers, JKNTUF president Muhammad Gafoor Dar condemned the delaying polices of the State Government regarding regularization and payment of pending wages of these causal labourers.
He threatened that JKNTUF would launch a massive agitation if the demands of these workers would not be conceded at earliest. He urged upon all the casual labourers to assemble at Agriculture office Lal Mandi Srinagar on June 24. He said that on that day a protest march would be organized that will culminate at Press Enclave Srinagar. (CNS)
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