“Release the Salary of Our Parents”- Children of PHE Employees Hold Sit-in at Srinagar
by News Desk
April 04
Firdous Qadri
Scores of daily wagers working in the PHE department along with their families held a massive protest demonstration here on Tuesday to press for the release of their pending salaries.
Protesting under the banner of Kashmir PHE Joint Employees Association, daily wagers with their family members assembled here in Pratap Park while chanting anti- government and anti PHE department slogans while holding banners and placards which read, “we want justice”, “pay us to let us pay fee of our wards” and “Please release pending wages of my father.”
The protesting daily wagers joined by their children alleged that the PHE department has held their salaries from more than 21 months and are ‘fooling them by saying that the file of their salaries is lying in the finance department’/ Photo- Firdous Qadri~The KashmiriyatThey said that their wards are being rusticated from their schools since they failed to pay their tuition fee, now they are with no option except keeping their children at home and deprive them schooling. Photo- Firdous Qadri~The KashmiriyatAssociation Chairman Sajad Ahmad Parray said that, “The department is fooling us by holding our salaries and our concern salary file is being tossed from table to table in the department,” he said. “We will not bend down till our demands are met”/ Photo- Firdous Qadri~The Kashmiriyat
