leaving construction works and supply of water affected, the indefinite  strike by the Uttarakhand Pay Jal Nigam Employees and Officers Coordination Association,  demanding immediate clearance of their salaries, has entered 12th day on Wednesday. 

They said that they have not  been receiving salary for  the past four months. Besides, they must be given the status of the Government employees, they demand.

The agitators kept the  offices of  the Pay Jal Nigam locked as part of the stir. However, they  refrained from locking them  on March 29. But  the  boycott continued. The stir has been continuing in all the districts under  Garhwal region.

Secretary of the Pauri district unit of the association Padmendra Singh Rawat said they have been eying  the fast-changing political scenario of the State. If the President’s Rule continues they might  withdraw the agitation, he said, adding that  it  would continue in case the  political rule  is restored. Those who are spearheading the agitation claim that all the  members of the association are participating in the stir.  

Due to the dragging agitation, the construction and development works worth crores are being affected. District headquarters Pauri is also facing the brunt of things with  water supply being affected.

The common people say that there is no supply of water from Nanghat drinking water project. The association’s district unit Secretary Rawat stressed that after their  salary is cleared they would demand   status of the Government employees  being  given to the Jal Nigam employees.