Srinagar: At least left out daily rated workers sustained injuries when police foiled their march and stop them proceeding towards Civil Secretariat Srinagar.
Eyewitnesses said that police charged the agitated workers with canes and used water-canons to disperse them when they gathered at Jehangir Chowk and were on way towards Civil Secretariat.
The protestors belonging to different departments were demanding regularization as they alleged they have been left out by the government and no measures are being taken to regularize them.
Jammu and Kashmir Left Out Daily Rated Workers Association president Tariq Ahmed Pampori said that they will continue to register their protest till their demands are not fulfilled. He said that at least 19 workers were injured during police action while one of them namely Reyaz Ahmed Reshi from Awantipora received 15 stitches on his forehead. Pampori further said around 1500 daily rated workers were left-out in 2000 when the state government regularized the services of those daily wagers who had worked in different departments for seven years. (CNS)
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