Agriculture Deptt casual labourers protest in Ganderbal, demand pending wages and regularization

Shahid Jeelani

Ganderbal 28 Jan: Casual labours of Agriculture department  held a protest demonstration today demanding release of their pending wages and regularization of their service.

Scores of labourers under the banner of Agriculture department Casual Labourers Association  assembled outside mini Secretariat Ganderbal and raised slogans in support of their demands and said that their wages are pending from many years.

They said that their wages are being withheld since many years and have not been released till date due to which they have to face immense hardships. Despite order issued from the Secretariat about releasing of the wages but till date not a single penny was released.

The basic work of the Agriculture department is running through these casual labours from the last many years due to shortage of permanent staff, but still we are struggling for regularization,” a protesting labour said.

The protesters appealed to the concerned department and Governor Administration to release the wages and regularize them and threatened that if the wages are not released immediately, they will be forced to come on roads.