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'Street protest is a culture in Kashmir, nothing new' Regularising 3600 casuals our top priority: Minister 6/16/2015 11:03:52 PM Javaid Naikoo Early Times Report Srinagar, June 16: Regularization of nearly 3600 casual employees is the top priority of J&K government, a minister said today. "Our sole priority is to regularize 3660 employees of different departments who are in service since 1992. As of now we are finalizing their verification process which may take some more time and we are regularizing them only," the Minister of State for Irrigation and Flood Control, Abdul Majeed Padder told Early Times. He did not set any deadline for regularization of the casual employees but insisted that the issue was "like a sacred thing with us which we will return to them." Meanwhile, the casuals from Industrial Training institute (ITI) and Public Health Engineering (PHE) staged a protest in Srinagar today, demanding their regularization. The ITI diploma holders said they were engaged as casual labourers in 2005 by then PDP-Congress coalition government which had promised them that they would be regularized within five years. Reyaz Ahmad Khan, the spokesperson of the ITI Diploma Holders Association, warned that their organization would intensify the agitation if their demands were not met before Eid. The protesters carried banners and were shouting slogans against the PDP-BJP government led by Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed. When asked about the protest by the casual employees, Padder said street protests of employees were a "part of Kashmiri culture." On the floor of House during last Assembly session, Minister for Finance and employment, Haseeb Drabu had said that "there is no policy with the government to regularize arround 60,000 casual and need base employees engaged by former governments in different departments." Drabu had said that his government will first regularize 3660 casual employees who are in service since 1992 and 1994. About the rest of casual and need-based employees of different government department, Drabu had said that from next year his government will look to frame and policy and the think of regularizing them.   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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