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| Workers stage protest over alleged denial of MGNREGA wages | | |  M S Nazki
Early Times Report
Poonch, Feb 26: Alleging that Rural Development Department (RDD) under various MGNREGA works for the last over one year have denied their wages, a large number of workers and locals held massive protest against the Government and submitted a memorandum in the office of Sub Divisional Magistrate here today.
The poor and hapless workers, who have toiled hectically under various works under MGNREGA in different blocks of Mendhar tehsil assembled at Shahidi Yadgar here today and staged a protest demonstration against the Rural Development Department.
Amid sloganeering against the concerned department and nodal officials, the protestors demanded inquiry in the alleged misappropriation of cement in MGNREGA works and denial of their dues.
Speakers alleged that concerned Village Level Workers (Gram Sevaks) were not paying their pending wages for the last over one year despite the matter was brought to the notice of BDO Mendhar, Balakote and Mankote but all in vain.
Led by Labour Union president Mendhar Abdul Majid choudhary , these workers also raised slogans against Director RDD and the Assistant Commissioner Development (ACD) Poonch fopr failing to release their wages. After staging protest for about an hour, the protests took out a protest march which concluded outside the Office of Sub Divisional Magistrate (SDM) Mendhar. They submitted a memorandum of demands to SDM Mendhar and sought early redressal of their long pending demand.
Protestors also warned that they will intensify their agitation if the wages of poor workers were not paid within a week.
They also appealed to the Governor of State N N Vohra to personally look into matter and redress their genuine and just demand. |
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