Srinagar, February 12 A large number of daily wage workers and contractual employees, along with their children, staged a protest here on Thursday to demand the regularization of their services in the Jammu and Kashmir government.
The protests, organized by the Employees Joint Action Committee (EJAC), were held at Sher-e-Kashmir Municipal Park here, where the demonstrators staged a sit-in and raised slogans such as 'we want justice' and 'give us our rights'.
Addressing the gathering, the EJAC leaders said that the Omar Abdullah government should not continue if it does not fulfill the promises made to the employees.
They said that the casual laborers and daily wage workers were the backbone of the departments that provide basic facilities to people, such as electricity and drinking water.
There are more than 60,000 employees who have been working as daily wage workers in Jammu and Kashmir for many years.
