Bhaderwah: PHE land donor workers who are working as daily wager in PHE Department on Friday held a silent protest while adopting social distancing seek the implementation of the Minimum Wages Act as applicable to the UTs and release of six months pending wages . Pritam Singh Kotwal , president of the land donor workers association Bhaderwah , highlighted the problems being faced by the land donor daily wagers of the PHE Department due to the alleged callousness of the concerned department .The Chief Engineer PHE Jammu and other senior officers have failed to address our genuine demands, including regular payment of wages, for the last over 6 months . The successive governments also never fulfilled their commitment and continued to keep the workers in the lurch. The workers, who are facing a lot of financial hardships to run their households and take care of their children, time and again approached the Chief Engineer PHE Jammu and SE Doda but did not see any fruitful result,” Kotwal alleged.He claimed that the PHE land donor workers of Bhaderwah were without their earned wages for the last over 6 months and it had badly affected their families amid Covid 19 lockdown as it was their only source of income.Ashok Kumar , Santosh Kumar , Sandesh Kumar , Kamal Singh , Rakesh Kumar , Joginder Singh , Danesh Singh , Kulveer Singh , Ravinder Singh and other land donor PHE workers threatened to begins Kam Chhor Hartal from May 15 if their peanding wages were not released .
