Mir Showkat
Ganderbal: Do you know daily wage employees of Jammu and Kashmir State Power Development Corporation are on hunger strike since last 15 days in Ganderbal and on Wednesday they entered their 48th day of protest demanding regularisation of services.
JKPDC daily wagers are protesting from October 13 demanding regularisation of services.
Employees threatened to ‘involve families in hunger strike if government fails to regularize their services.’
The protesting employees of USHP-ll (Upper Sindh Hydro Power Project) Kangan in central Kashmir’s Ganderbal district told INS: “We will fight for right till death and will continue to stay on strike till our demands are met.”
Authorities are not addressing our issues, protesting daily wagers claimed, ‘instead of listening to us they have put deaf ear to our genuine demands.’
District Secretary Mohd Shafi told INS that they are working in the department from past 20 years ‘but government has failed to regularize our services which has badly affected our families.’
Despite several attempts to Managing Director, Shah Feasal was not available for his comments over the issue. (INS)
