PHE employees continue to protest over pending wages, regularisation

5 Dariya News

Srinagar 04-Oct-2018

Nearly a hundred employees of the public health engineering (PHE) department on Thursday staged a demonstration here in this capital city seeking the  release of pending wages and implementation of SR0-520 at the earliest.Reports reaching news gathering agency Global News Service said that  nearly a hundred PHE employees under the banner of All J&K PHE, ITI workers association this morning converged at Pratap Park, Lal Chowk here  and staged the anti-government demonstration. Carrying black flags and placards that read “We want justice,” “Release our wages,” the protesting  employees were demanding regularisation of their services under SRO-520 besides the release of the long-pending wages.“The government has  withheld our salaries; SRO-520 is not being implemented. Divide and rule policy is being used to create differences between the employees,” the  protesters said.The protesters alleged that the successive regimes only made false promised to them and used them for political gains.“No government has taken our demands seriously. We have been left in the lurch,” they added. (GNS)