Call of March to Omar’s Residence from SK Park
SRINAGAR: The Joint Consultative Committee (JCC), an amalgam of various employees unions, on Wednesday called for protest demonstrations and strike on August 22 and 23 to protest the failure of the Kashmir government to fulfill their demands.
Addressing reporters here, JCC leaders Abdul Qayoom Wani and Rouf Ahmad Bhat also threaten to intensify their protests if government continued to maintain what they termed as it’s “criminal silence”.
“We have decided employees of all the three regions will stage protest demonstrations in all the three regions—Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh,” Qayoom Wani said, according to a KNS report.
He said that on the day (August 22), thousands of employees shall assemble at SK Park here and “we will march peacefully towards the residence of Chief Minister Omar Abdullah.”
On that day, employees of civil secretariat led by Rouf Ahmad Bhat will stage a protest inside the premises the secretariat.
In Jammu, he said, employees led by JCC leader Gafoor Dar will stage a protest outside the office of Divisional Commissioner Jammu.
“On August 23, there will be a complete strike in all government offices including Civil Secretariat and Public Sector Undertakings,” Wani, who also heads EJAC (Q), said.
JCC is demanding enhancement in the retirement age from 58 to 60 years, regularisation for the daily rated workers, casual labourers and need based workers engaged after 1994, removal of pay anomaly of clerical cadre (pre-revised Rs 6500-10500) and budgetary support for public sector.
