Aam Aadmi Party leader & Social activist Gurmeet Singh Baaghi urged the Government to enact a concrete policy for the regularisation of daily wagers and other casual appointees of different departments and release the pending wages of workers. The government has failed to address the sufferings of daily wagers and other appointees in different departments. The casual labourers and daily wagers working in various departments rejected the minimum wages recently set by the J&K administration recently. The Government recently issued a notification regarding the Minimum Wages Act, but it is sheer injustice because, in Delhi, workers get Rs 635 and Rs 311 have been set for daily wagers. The 7th Pay Commission in 2018 recommended Rs 18000 as minimum wage and the same was accepted by the Supreme Court, India Labour Conference and now in 2022, J&K administration are giving minimum wages of Rs 9000 per month which is nothing but injustice, said Baaghi. The Government had already regularised Adhoc / Contractual Doctors, Range Officers, Information Officers, Instructors in Technical Education, and JEs others as per Civil Services Special provision Act 2010 then why daily wagers have been debarred from the same right.
Baaghi said that the Government could not ignore the fact that thousands of families were dependent on their breadwinners, Govt should immediately regularised them in the service. They have given their life precious years to departments, served in far flung areas and most of are over age, what they get after giving their life precious time to departments.
Baaghi urged to the LG Administration that the long pending demands of daily wagers and other appointees etc may be considered as soon as possible, with issuance of their regularisation and till their wages require to be enhanced to enabling them to feed their families in the present hard times.The exploitation of workers must stop and should be regularised without any further delay, said Baaghi.
Baaghi urges LG to regularise daily wagers and other casual appointees of different departments
