Expressing serious concern over administration's failure to fulfil its promise of regularizing daily wagers, casual labourers, scheme workers, contractual workers and others, working in various departments, CPI (M) leader Mohammad Yousuf Tarigami today said these poor workers are already suffering due to the non-payment of wages for months together.
The Casual labours and Daily Wagers held a protest demonstration at Press Enclave Srinagar demanding their regularization but they were lathi charged and scores of them were detained, he said.
Tarigami said their services have not been regularized till date by the successive regimes even though all the prerequisite formalities and other information sought from time to time has been furnished by them.
“The weaker and poorer sections of the society have been totally neglected by the Government which has severely hit their means of livelihood. Most of these workers are the sole breadwinners of their respective families and how will they manage their day-to-day expenditure if the Government doesn’t pay them their wages? Till their regularization, they shall be brought under the preview of minimum wages act, keeping in view the high inflation,” he said.
The CPI(M) leader assured full support to the protesting casual labourers and daily wagers in their struggle.
He demanded early release of those who have been detained.