Port Blair, April 19: Under the leadership of Shri Kuldeep Rai Sharma, President INTUC various unions of APWD affiliated to INTUC will stage a Dharna at Tiranga Park on 23rd April, 2013 from 8 AM to 1:30 PM. The dharna is to impress upon the authorities to meet the long pending legitimate demands of providing regular appointment to all DRMs / Casual / Contract/ Muster Roll workers having served for more than five years, regular appointment to compassionate ground cases, no retrenchment of workers having worked for more than 240 days, filling up of all vacant posts of work charged Belders, to do away with engagement of mazdoors through labour contracts, to re induction of Muster Roll system for engagements of workers, Creation of Water Supply Division and Highway Division for employment generation and development.
The Dharna shall be followed by a procession which will commence at about 11:30 AM from Tiranga Park and pass through Clock tower, Y Narayan Junction, Clock Tower, Model School, Bengali Club, CE APWD office and shall terminate at Gandhi Bhavan.