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WWM hunger strike continues for 178th day in Quetta
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QUETTA: Workers of Water Management program in the agriculture department continued their hunger strike camp for the 178th consecutive day on Saturday to press the government to meet their demand for regularization of contractual jobs.
It was too cold and raining on Friday when the protesting workers, Dad balcoh and Ishaq Khan, from the Water Management program of Agriculture department continued their hunger strike in a tent in front of Quetta Press Club on Friday.
The workers of the Water Management regretted that the Balochistan government was not paying attention to their demand that they should be hired on permanent basis against their current status of contract employment. They said the government had announced the Balochistan Package to claim that it was intended to eliminate Balochistan’s sense of deprivation but no attention had been paid to their longstanding demands of the water management workers.
They charged that some elements in the agriculture department were trying to embezzle the existing funds available to pay salaries to the workers of water management. They recalled that a resolution had been passed in their support to be hired on permanent basis but the Chief Secretary of Balochistan was deliberately snubbing the issue.
” The Finance Department has issued a recommendation letter in our support while the Director General of Agriculture department has extended a no-objection certificate in our favor and stated justification for making the contract employees as regular workers in the wake of several existing vacancies,” said one representative of the agriculture department employees presenting observing a hunger strike.
“In Punjab, the Chief Minister regularized as many as 150000 government employees even without announcing a big package or holding any protests. Why can’t the Balochistan government do the same for its people despite claims to be struggling to improve the living standard of the people of Balochistan,” he said, adding that they would continue their struggle until the government meets their demands.
