Kupwara: 140 need based employees of Animal, Sheep Husbandry and Fisheries department in north Kashmir’s Kupwara District are without salary from past three years. Minister says ‘we are serious in finding the way out to release unpaid wages’.
Mohammad Ramzan, one of the need based employee of the ASH&F told INS that for first few months every thing went smoothly but their wages were ‘stopped for reasons unknown till date’.
“We hardly meet all our family needs. The situation is such we have loans to repay and even grocery stores are not ready provide us house hold items,” Ramzan complains.
Not only are the employees complaining of the hardships they face but also of the ‘lackadaisical and callous approach of the government towards people who work however for nothing in return’.
“Our children are bearing the brunt. Isn’t it a shame for a government which claims education is their focus but our wards have many times were sent back home as we could not submit the school fees,” another need based employee Aijaz Ahmad laments.
According to Aijaz many of his colleagues have admitted their wards in government schools.
“Why should an employee come on streets to tell it’s employer, government, that don’t you remember us? You hired us. We will come on roads with all our families and they should bull doze us. We can’t see our families die every day,” aggrieved group of need based employees said.
Minister for Animal, Sheep Husbandry and Fisheries Abdul Ghani Kohli claimed that the government is serious in getting ‘issue resolved and it will be done soon’.
“We are serious in finding a way out to release the unpaid wages of Need base Employee’s and govt is all serious about this matter. Their grievance will be redressed in coming days,” Kohli said.
