New Delhi, Feb 09 : National Conference (NC) Member of Parliament, Hasnain Masoodi called on Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and sought regularization and removal of pay anomalies of daily-wage and contractual employees in J&K.
Bringing the grave problems faced by daily rated, temporary, casual, contractual, need based, seasonal and other workers serving in different government departments, local bodies, public sector undertakings and other government institutions in Jammu and Kashmir to the notice of the Union Finance Minister, Masoodi, as per a statement issued.
Expressing satisfaction over the action following his repeated pleas on the issue, Masoodi said, “It is satisfying that the issue raised by me during Zero Hour on 01.12.2021 prompted the Government of India to write to the J & K administration seeking necessary information/inputs. The relevant details are expected to have been submitted by now. The plight of more than 61000 daily rated, temporary, casual, need based, seasonal, local fund, contractual, contingency paid and other workers is of grave concern,” he said.
Highlighting the problems faced by this important component of administration, Masoodi said,
“Regularization of 61000 daily rated workers and other workers have been waiting for decades. With delay in regularization they are deprived of a number of benefits like pay scale, grade pay, HRA, education allowance etc available to their colleagues in a pay scale performing similar and in some cases less onerous duties.”
“The scheme devised to provide for regularization must give due consideration to the length of service and not the date of release of wages and also provide for all the benefits available to the regular employees. The long pending problem calls for speedy and hassle free justice,” he said.
Masoodi implored the Union Finance Minister to provide sufficient funds to Jammu and Kashmir for regularization of 61000 daily rated, temporary and other workers, release of minimum wages to all the workers pending their regularization and timely release of all arrears and current wages.
