JKNPP protests miserable plight of tractor, trolley operators
31/07/2020
Jammu, Jul 30: Anguished over the miserable plight of hundreds of tractor and trolley operators who were rendered jobless, a strong contingent of panther activists along with scores of aggrieved labourers staged a vociferous protest demonstration here in Jammu today. While raising anti- BJP government slogans, the infuriated protesters torched its effigy and accused the J&K administration of pushing them to starvation.
Speaking to the media, Mr. Harsh Dev Singh sought a fair deal for the tractor and trolley operators who have been rendered jobless by the govt. in view of restrictions imposed on lifting of sand and gravel from the river beds.
He said that while restrictions on manual lifting of sand and bajri were unwarranted, the govt. functionaries were exceeding their mandate by imposing a blanket ban on extraction of such materials.
"And while the poor tractor and trolley operators were restrained from lifting the said materials, the big contractors and influential land mafia was openly extracting minerals from river beds by using JCB machines, earth excavators and lifting and transporting such material by defying the law as well as the orders of the government", Harsh rued. He charged the local administration and officials of geology and mining department of conniving with big contractors while disallowing the poor tractor trolley owners of their legitimate claims.
The poor tractor trolley operators who had obtained loans from Banks are finding it impossible to pay the installments in view of total collapse of their business in the wake the said restrictions and the ongoing Corona pandemic resulting in untold miseries for thousands of such dependent families. He called for waving off the loans of the affected persons as a goodwill gesture in keeping with the fundamentals of a welfare state.
Further asserting that with land mafia enjoying the hegemony over the mining trade, Mr. Singh said that the poor tractor and trolley operators have been rendered jobless and left in lurch for the past several months with nobody in the Governor's Administration taking cognizance about the situation and coming to the rescue of the hundreds of hapless labourers.
He urged upon the govt. to review its orders so as to save the poor tractor/trolley owners from starvation and take punitive action under the law against the contractors, goons and the erring officers in league.
Prominent among those who spoke on the occasion included Rajesh Padgotra, Surinder Chouhan, Rajesh Gondhi, Khajur Singh, Nirmal Kishore Yoginder Sumbria, Ganesh Dutt, Subash Chander, Amit Sharma, Jaswant Singh, Puran Sharma, Gulshan Singh, Angrez Singh, Mohd. Jawed, Uttam Kumar, Sandeep, Mohd. Saleem, Jankar Chopra, Shubam Langeh, Chain Singh, Rayaz Ahmed, Mukesh, Ashok Kumar, Mumtaz Ahmed besides others.
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