NYC employees hold protest, demand regularization of services
Srinagar, May 24 :National Youth Corps (NYC) employees today held a protest demonstration in Srinagar demanding immediate regularization of their services.
Hundreds of NYC employees assembled this morning in press enclave Lal Chowk and staged a sit-in protest for not redressing demands of 8000 NYC youth who were engaged on merit basis in 2010.
Stating that NYC Association time to time demanded the Government to come up with a comprehensive policy by which the future of 8000 NYC remain secure, the protesting youth said the Government gave only verbal assurances, done nothing at ground level and now it has backtracked from his promises made with NYC youth, which is a severe shock for them.
The protesting NYC youth said that they have been working in different departments for last 12 years with the hope that they will be absorbed on available vacancies but now issuing an order, Government has declared us volunteers. “We are not volunteers as it was the BJP Government which gave us SRO 520 in the year 2017,” they added and requested the LG Administration for regularizing their jobs, enhancement of wages and extending them benefit of health insurance policies.
Asif Ali Bhat, president NYC Employees’ Association while speaking to CNS said that the then LG assured us that we are going to sought vacant vacancies and will firstly regularize you there in the departments where you are deployed as per your qualification and then the left out vacancies shall forwarded to recruitment agencies. He assured us about timely completion of process to end the sufferings of NYCs.
Bhat stressed that government of Jammu and Kashmir is well aware about the fact that the NYC, REK, REZ and REJ employees are not getting the legally justified wages.
Meanwhile, NYC employee’s association appealed the government if these categories brought in the ambit of a justifiable service provisions in the form of a SRO to cover these employees of all the departments that will provide a relief to these employees category from their concern in the best interest of justice.