| AJKLPEF takes out procession, holds rally, seeks settlement of issues | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Apr 29: On the call given by All J&K Low Paid Employees Federation (AJKLPEF), thousands of employees, pensioners, daily wage workers and others from various parts of Jammu province took out a procession and later held a huge rally here today.
The employees from Poonch, Surankote, Darhal, Budhal, Rajouri, Nowshera, Sunderbani, Kalakote, RS Pura, Samba, Bishnah, Kathua, Billawar, Basohli, Hiranagar, Ghagwal, Reasi, Udhampur, Chenani, Ramnagar, Ramban, Banihal, Kishtwar, Bhaderwah, Doda, Jammu city and its adjoining areas assembled at Parade Ground and took out a colourful procession which passed through Purani Mandi, City Chowk, Raghunath Bazar Residency Road before culminating at Shaheedi Chowk where a huge rally was held under the presidium of provincial president, AJKLPEF, Jagdish Raj Sharma .
Abdul Majid Khan, a veteran trade union leader and president of the Federation paid glowing tributes to the May day martyrs who laid down their lives for earning weekly off and fixed working hours for the workers of the world over about one and half century ago. He said that anti-people and anti-working class policies of the successive central and state governments headed by the exploiting ruling classes have made the masses toiling hard while they also suffered from multiple types of miseries and hardships day by day.
Om Parkash Sharma, general secretary of the Federation, Krishan Singh, president J&K State Pensioners Association, leading activist of Provincial Teachers Association Anil Verma were also among the speakers. The speakers made a strong plea to the governor's administration to enhance Medical Allowance from present paltry rate of Rs 300 to at least Rs 1000 on central pattern, provide health insurance cover to employees and pensioners with affordable annual premium as the employees and pensioners ill afford to meet medicare expenses out of their fixed resources of earnings, restore LTC in J&K state, raise minimum daily wage to Rs 400, regularize daily wage workers after removing anti-workers provisions from SRO 520 of 2018 expeditiously besides raising other issues. |
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