Srinagar, Feb 16: A large number of daily wagers and contractual employees took out a protest march here on Monday to demand regularisation of their services in the Jammu and Kashmir government.
The protesters marched from Nawa-i-Subah complex to TRC crossingWomen’s Welfare Association Protests in Srinagar, Demands Hike in Minimum Wages, Timely Salary Release, raising slogans in support of their demand for regularisation of their services in the government.
The employees, who had gathered under the banner of Employees Joint Action Committee (EJAC), were carrying placards which read ‘nothing short of regularisation in service will be acceptable’.
The protesting employees said the Omar Abdullah government should “wake up” and fulfil the promises made to them.
The EJAC had organised a similar protest here on February 12.
There are more than 60,000 employees who have been working as daily wagers in Jammu and Kashmir for many years.
