JDA employees end month long strike after assurances by Deputy CM
Yash
Khajuria
JAMMU,
June 15: Finally after month long agitation, government has
finally accepted the demands of striking Jammu Development Authority (JDA), who
were demanding implementation of 6th Pay Commission Report and other pending
demands.
The Chairman of JDA and Deputy Chief Minister Tara
Chand showing his concern over the fast unto death strike carried by more than
400 employees of the JDA and passed the direction to the Vice chairmen Sarita
Chauhan to announce the employees that the authorities have accepted the
demands of the striking employees and the can call off.
Talking exclusively to the TNI news the Deputy Chief
Minister Tara Chand said that it has taken a long time in redressing the issues
of the Employees but now the Demands have been approved, however, for the
delayed approval of demands he said that the implementation of SRO 43 was not
in the provision for some corporations like JDA but marking this a genuine the
Authority has agreed to implement this for the JDA employees, he said that the
whole list of the demands is not been agreed some the issues are not acceptable
but we have taken our consideration on the genuine ones.
On the other hand, Ashok Singh Jamwal, president,
JDA employees Union said that the decision of the authorities by implementing
SRO 43 in JDA is an historic decision as after 15 long years they have been
able to get their rights.
Pertinently, administration was seen in panic when
president JDA Employees Union Ashok Singh was forcefully lifted from the spot
and has thrown in Gandhi Nagar hospital.
Apparently, the JDA employees were on strike from
the 22nd May 2012 under the banner of JDA Employees Union and after getting
aggrieved from the adamant attitude of the higher authorities had decided to
sit on hunger strike from 28th May 2012.
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