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.