Port Blair, Aug 24: A delegation of Congress party and INTUC under the leadership of Shri Kuldeep Rai Sharma, President, Congress Party & INTUC met the workers of Port Blair Municipal Council staging Dharna organized by Port Blair Municipal Employees Welfare Union at Tiranga Park since 23/8/2016.
In his address Shri Sharma appreciated the endeavor of PBMEWU in organizing the dharna and offered whole hearted support of Congress party and INTUC towards fulfillment of the demands raised by the union before PBMC authorities. Shri Sharma in his address said that all demands raised by the union are genuine and legitimate.
He emphasized on immediate Regularization of services of long serving DRMs against existing vacancies and conferring 1/30th of Pay plus Dearness Allowance per day to the remaining long serving DRMs. Shri Sharma said that during the tenure of the last Council ruled by the Congress party over 450 Daily Rated Work Charged Mazdoors/ sanitary workers were given regular appointment and over 650 DRMs were conferred Casual status despite the Council facing financial crunch.
He said that the present Council, the MP and the Center all being of BJP, there need not be any difficulty for the Council in organizing fund and formulating a scheme for regularization of services of all long serving DRMs as one time measure. Shri Sharma also handed over the letter of support from INTUC to the President of PBMEWU which organized two days dharna at Tiranga Park.
The dharna was also addressed by Shri M. Arumugam, Ex-Chairperson, PBMC, Shri Gyan Prakash Krishna, General Secretary, INTUC Smti Shanta Singh, President, Pradesh Mahila Congress, Shri Noor Islam, Chief Organizer, Pradesh Congress Seva Dal.
