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`Enact legislation to regularise service of daily wage employees in State'

Staff Correspondent

Plea to appoint them to the 80,000 vacant posts in the State

CHAMARAJANAGAR: K.S. Sharma, president of the Karnataka State Daily Wage Employees Mahamandali has stressed the need to enact legislation to regularise the services of the 17,000 daily wage

employees in the State.

He was presiding over the State Government daily wage employees' division-level convention here on Sunday.

The mahamandali would continue its agitation until the service of all the daily wage employees were regularised, he said.

The Government had regularised the service of 66,000 daily wage employees owing to the efforts of the mahamandali. But it had not done so in the case of those appointed after July 1, 1984, he said. Dr. Sharma warned that a decision would be taken to intensify the agitation at the State-level convention to be held at Uppinahalli if the Government failed to take a decision before August 9.

He alleged that the Government had failed to provide job security and other facilities to the daily wage employees, who had been working for half salary for 22 years.

He urged the Government to fill the 80,000 vacant posts in the State by regularising the service of daily wage employees.

P. Ramaiah, journalist and MLC, said that the Government and the courts were not responding to the problems of the daily wage employees.

The Supreme Court verdict would not pose any problem if the Government appointed the daily wage employees to 80,000 vacant posts.

Owing to the efforts of the mahamandali, the Government had dropped

the decision taken with regard to the daily wage employees, he said.

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