Govt employees detained while marching to CM residence

Jammu and Kashmir Police today detained over a dozen government employees here as they tried to march towards the Chief Minister's residence to stage a demonstration in support of their demands including regularisation of daily-wage and casual workers.
Hundreds of employees of Public Health Engineering (PHE) Department assembled near Sher-e-Kashmir Park and tried to march towards the high security Gupkar residence of Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, officials said.
They said the police asked the protesting employees to disperse, but they insisted on going ahead, following which they were detained.
The protest call was given by Kashmir PHE Joint Employees Association in support of its demand for regularisation of daily wage workers, casual labourers and need-based workers.

They also demanded that their pending salaries be released and paid regularly.
Over the past several months, the employees had staged various demonstrations and sit-ins in support of their demands.