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Daily Wagers Gherao to Secretariat foiled, highlight demand of Regularization 10/3/2016 10:43:30 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Oct 3: Demanding regularization of their services, thousand of daily wage workers /Need Based /Casual worker of the Public Health Engineering (PHE) Deptt, PWD(R&B) Deptt, Mechanical Engineering Deptt, I&FC Deptt in Jammu and Kashmir today held a protest rally and tried to gherao the Civil Secretariat here. However, the protesting all departments workers were stopped by the police before they could proceed to the Secretariat. "Many of us have been working as daily wage workers for past more than a decade, but despite assurances by successive state governments no step has been taken to regularise our services," said the protestors. They said the workers have been raising the demand for their regularization for the past several months but the authorities did not pay heed and they decided to gherao the Civil Secretariat. They accused the BJP of not keeping their pre-poll promise to redress the grievances of the daily wagers workers. The all department workers have threatened to intensify their agitation if the government fails to regularize their services. Police had a tough time controlling the protesting workers from proceeding towards the Civil Secretariat and they were stopped near B C Road. "We had to use barbed wires to block the road so as to stop these protesting workers from proceeding towards the Civil Secretariat," a police officer said. He said elaborate security arrangements have been put in place to maintain law and order in the city.   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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