Bhasker Meets Contractual Employees of Afloat and Dockyard Part of DSS, Assures them of Highlighting their Points

Tarun Karthick

Port Blair, 27 March 2023

Mr. TSG Bhasker, Campaign Committee Chairperson, ANTCC, lately met the Contractual and Afloat Employees of the Directorate of Shipping Services in entrance of the Marine Dockyard Gate. 

The assembly was organised beneath the management of Mr. Okay.P Usman, INTUC Working President and Mr. Ibrahim Kolakattil (Baba), President of DSS Dockyard Employees Union.

During the assembly, the staff shared their grievances concerning the regularisation of their jobs.

Mr. Bhasker expressed solidarity with the staff on the difficulty of the regularisation of their jobs. Most workers have crossed 35 years of age, and no Govt. Department will make use of them additional. Mr. Bhasker questioned, ‘How is the administration expecting them to survive without a concrete source of income amid rising inflation?’

Mr. Bhasker additionally remarked, ‘When it involves delivering output on the office, the contractual employees of DSS additionally places in an equal effort at par with their everlasting counterparts. Despite equal work, contractual workers are disadvantaged of the advantages their everlasting counterparts take pleasure in. 

Mr. Bhasker promised the contractual workers that he would meet the Chief Secretary and lift their grievances, and demand for his or her regularisation.

Mr. Mohd Zubair, President, City Congress and Mr. Y Joga Rao, Councillor, Ward No. 14 have been additionally current throughout the assembly.