The District Development Council chairperson of Reasi, along with other political representatives, civil society members and family members of workers engaged by railway companies for railway land works on Friday held a protest demonstration against the administration and railway companies for playing with the lives of workers.
Officials said that the DDC chairperson and others have demanded an audit into the lapses made by railway companies in ensuring good working condition for workers.
They said that in the last four days, two railway workers lost their lives due to poor working condition.
“The insensitive approach of administration and railway companies can be gauged from the fact that an Assam based worker who died yesterday in a railway tunnel and concerned company not even bothered to remove his body from the spot and is even not ready to shift his body,” said DDC chairperson, SS Naag.
He appealed to the authorities to ensure that good working conditions for the workers in the area—(KNO)