Excelsior Correspondent Srinagar, May 1: The forums representing the temporary and casual labours today urged the Government to implement the Labour Laws in the Union Territory of J&K and fulfil the promises made after August 5, 2019. Click here to watch video Addressing a press conference here on the occasion of International Workers’ Day, General Secretary of J&K Employees Joint Action Committee and President Casual Labourer’s Forum Sajjad Parray criticised the Government for doing nothing for the workers working in […]
Excelsior Correspondent SRINAGAR/JAMMU, Dec 8: JK Employees Joint Action Committee (EJAC) held strong protest demonstrations at Srinagar and Jammu demanding regularisation of daily wagers, adhoc and temporary employees working in different departments of J&K for last two decades. In Srinagar the protest was held at Press Enclave and it was led by president EJAC Mohd Rafique Rather. Scores of EJAC activists holding play cards in their hands were raising slogans in favour of regularisation of these employees. Click here to […]
UPDATED: May 28, 2021 16:45 IST
A man cycles through the closed Lal Chowk market in Srinagar on May 25 (Abid Bhat)
It has been more than three weeks since the Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) government sacked Idrees Jan Mir ‘in the interest of the security of the state’ on April 30, ending his 13-year-long career with the state education department. A former teacher at a government girls’ high school in Kralpora village in northern Kashmir’s Kupwara, the 39-year-old was the first of six employees recently fired by the Union Territory government on the same grounds. Others include jailed J&K deputy superintendent of police Davinder Singh who was caught travelling with a top Hizbul Mujahideen militant and two operatives in Kashmir in January 2020 as well as a naib tehsildar and a college professor from south Kashmir and two teachers from Kupwara in north Kashmir.