Forests & Wildlife Preservation Minister meets Janglat Workers Union
Catering to workers’ interests top priority of State Government
Punjab Newsline, Chandigarh-
The Forests and Wildife Preservation Department has regularized the services of more than 1000 employees during the past 7 months and a proposal has been sent to the Finance Department (FD), Personnel and Legal Remebrancer (LR) to regularize another 519 senior workers, as per the policy rolled out in the year 2023, who do not fulfil age & education qualifications but who have completed 10 years of service.
Guided by the vision of the Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann, the department stands fully committed to undertake every step in order to benefit the workers. This was stated today by the Forest and Wildlife Preservation Minister Lal Chand Kataruchak while meeting representatives of the Janglat Workers Union at Forest Complex.
Regarding the demand of the union representatives to release salaries of the workers given appointment letters on July 30th last year, the Minister was apprised by the senior officers of the department that the Integrated Human Resource Management System (IHRMS) Ids have been updated in this regard and the salaries would be released soon. The Minister also directed the officers to ensure timely release and disbursal of the workers to ensure that they do not suffer financially.
The Minister while giving a patient hearing to the various other demands of the union, assured that taking care of the interests of the workers of the department is top priority with the government as the workers are inalienable part of the department.
Among others present on the occasion included the Secretary Forests and Wildlife Preservation Department Priyank Bharti, Principal Chief Conservator of Forests (Head of Forest Force) Dharminder Sharma, and CCF (Plains) Nidhi Srivastava.