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Hundreds of regular wage employees of the Jal Shakti section staged a protestation present connected Thursday (October 23, 2025), demanding the authorities merchandise the study of the committee acceptable up by Chief Minister Omar Abdullah connected the regularisation of their services.
The PHE Employees United Front, Jammu, urged the Chief Minister to array the committee study successful the Assembly.
The workers' assemblage besides threatened to clasp an assertive protestation connected October 27 if their demands are not met, asserting that regular wagers person been struggling for implicit 2 decades for the regularisation of their services.
Amid slogans of "We privation justice", the workers held a dharna objection astatine the Jal Shakti bureau successful the metropolis connected the archetypal time of the autumn league of the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly.
The regular wage unit said they would proceed their protestation for regularisation and implementation of the Minimum Wages Act.
"We person held protests for implicit 1,200 days, but the authorities has failed to fulfil our request for the regularisation of regular wagers. On the archetypal time of the Assembly session, we privation to punctual the authorities astir our request and question the destiny of the committee report," PHE Employees United Front (Jammu Province) person Ravi Hans told reporters.
He said, during the erstwhile Assembly session, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah had acceptable up a committee connected the regularisation of regular wagers.
"When we were connected the roads during the past session, the committee was announced by the Chief Minister, and a play of six months was fixed to it to array the report. It was to beryllium submitted by September 19, but till now, we bash not cognize the destiny of the report," helium said.
The workers' assemblage demanded that the authorities array the study during the existent session. "If the authorities fails to array the study successful the Assembly, the beforehand volition clasp an assertive protestation connected October 27," helium warned.
On March 19, the Jammu and Kashmir authorities constituted a six-member committee to analyse issues related to the regularisation of regular wage workers successful the Union territory.
Mr. Abdullah had announced the enactment of the committee successful the Assembly, saying that a roadmap would beryllium prepared for presumption successful the adjacent fund session.
The committee, headed by the main secretary, was tasked to analyse assorted issues, including humanitarian, legal, and fiscal aspects related to the regularisation of casual, seasonal labourers, and different workers successful Jammu and Kashmir, and to suggest measures.
There are an estimated 67,000 regular wage workers successful assorted departments crossed Jammu and Kashmir.
