Shadow Correspondent
JAMMU, MAY 10:
Emphasizing on the need for amendment of SRO 520 to be extent of providing relief to the sixty one thousand daily rated workers working in the various departments, who have rendered 10 to 20 years should be exempted from the production of middle qualification certificate, Subash Shastri President of the National Mazdoor Conference(NMC) today appealed to the Chief Minister’s and State Finance Mi9nister’s to take decision in this regard in the ensuing meeting of the State Cabinet which is going to be held in the summer capital of the state in Srinagar tomorrow, so that the obstacles which are coming in implementation of this SRO 520 could be removed.
“This is being pleaded because they started rendering services at the nook and corner of the remote areas of the state and have given their youth by way facing hardships in creating and providing infrastructure specially Public health engineering department, irrigation & flood control department, power development department etc.” said this while interacting with media persons here.
He said that these poor daily rated workers without salary ranging from 20 to 40 months in the same cases and are badly starving to manage day to day expenses. Regarding furnishing of record, it is suggested first and last voucher of their master sheets should be made the basic for easing out their process of formalities, he added.
Among others who were also present on the occasion included Rajan Babu Khajuria, B.S. Jamwal, Jaipal Sharma, Pardeep Kumar, Darshan Bawa, Ram Singh, Surinder Kumar, Thoru Ram, Ramesh Sharma and others.