J&K Employees, Workers Welfare federation demands comprehensive regularizing, wages policy for daily wagers

Srinagar (PR): J&K Employees and Workers Welfare federation (JKEWWF) demands a comprehensive regularizing and wages policy for thousands of daily wagers engaged with various departments in the UT of J&K and rehabilitation of the same on different guidelines issued by the Union government.
JKEWWWF urges the incumbent UT government of JK to draw a comprehensive permanent regularizing and wages policy for more than 60,000 daily wagers, who have been engaged with various departments of JK including PDD, PHE, PWD, UEED, Local Bodies, Floriculture and Agriculture, Forest and others. A cabinet decision made by the previous collation government drafted out a new regularization policy under SRO-520, which has been by and large rejected by the daily wagers as against their interests. However, the JKEWWF demands revival and amendment of the SRO-64 of 1994 and adopt the same guidelines for the regularization of all daily rated workers.
The state administrative council has recently issued orders for the regularization of the services of ReT teachers in the education department, which is a welcome step but the daily wagers particularly employed with essential service departments who despite being vulnerable to risks continue their duties have been yet again ignored. The organization demands a uniform and immediate decision for all the pending and awaited regularizations that have been cleared and approved by the previous cabinets.

Moreover, thousands of daily wagers who continue to dispose of their duties in their respective postings are not being paid their due wages, ‘some of them receive their wages on festivals only once or twice in a calendar year and even some of them are deprived of that also.’ This irresponsible attitude of the government is condemnable and immediate release of the wages is demanded on behalf of these daily rated workers.
In the current scenario of the global pandemic, the Union government recently issued guidelines to the state and UT governments throughout India to compensate and rehabilitate migrant workers living in their territories who are being affected by the nationwide lockdown. The government of J&K, however, has done remarkable and commendable efforts to accommodate the registered migrant workers, but unfortunately, no compassion has been shown by the state government towards the thousands of poor daily wagers who await their pending wages and regularization for months and years respectively.
These workers have the same living conditions and their families have been affected equally not only in the current global scenario but also in the past and continue to do so without being paid.
The JKEWWF requests and appeals to the incumbent government to kindly provide a similar pattern of ration and other facilities to the families of these daily rated workers who despite not being paid work continuously as a vital arm of the state essential services.