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  • Tarigami Leads Protest For Minimum Wages, Worker Regularisation

    Tarigami Leads Protest For Minimum Wages, Worker Regularisation

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    SRINAGAR: Mohammad Yousuf Tarigami, a leader of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), took to the streets on Monday in Jammu and Kashmir’s summer capital to lead a protest on the occasion of International Labour Day. Tarigami’s demonstration called for the implementation of the Minimum Wages Act in its true spirit while also demanding the abolition of the contractual system of employment.

    According to Tarigami, workers employed on a contractual or daily wage basis in the Integrated Child Development Scheme and the National Health Mission were being denied their right to basic minimum wages. He stated that “Our demand is that minimum fixed wages be given to every worker as set by the labour conference.”

    After leading the protest at Residency Road, Tarigami spoke with reporters, reiterating his stance and emphasizing the importance of fair wages for all workers. He said, “Our demand is to implement the Minimum Wages Act in letter and spirit, so that the contractual system of employment is abolished, and every worker gets the minimum fixed wages as set by the labour conference.”

    Tarigami also drew attention to the long history of struggles against labour exploitation in Kashmir, pointing out that “In Zaldagar Kashmir, labourers had protested for their rights even before the May Day protests in Chicago in 1886. Workers here had fought against the taxes imposed by the then government.”

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    ( With inputs from : kashmirlife.net )

  • New Social Media Guidelines Violate Basic Fundamental Rights: Mehbooba

    New Social Media Guidelines Violate Basic Fundamental Rights: Mehbooba

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    SRINAGAR: PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti on Saturday said the new social media guidelines for the Jammu and Kashmir government employees are in complete violation of the basic fundamental rights of people.

    Taking to Twitter, Mehbooba wrote, “Whether it was blacklisting contractors & the social media gag to employees, a clear intimidation of dispossessing people in J&K of their livelihood has emerged. Authorities have become judge, jury & executioner in complete violation of the fundamental rights of people.”

    Senior CPIM leader Muhammad Yousuf Tarigami also criticised the circular issued by the Government of Jammu and Kashmir regarding the use of social media by its employees stating that government cannot snatch the rights of employees guaranteed to them by the Constitution.

    “Government employee is a citizen also and he has every right to exercise his freedom. A government employee can either support or oppose the government’s view and actions and depriving him of this right is against the law and the very principles of the Constitution,” Tarigami said.

    Tarigami said that every criticism within the ambit of law and constitution is justified. “For this freedom and these rights, people have fought and now government can’t take these rights away from the citizens,” he said.

    According to the new social media guidelines, no government employee shall, by any utterance, writing, or otherwise discuss or criticize in public or in any meeting of any association or body any policy pursued or action taken by the government nor shall he in any manner participate in any such discussion or criticism.

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    ( With inputs from : kashmirlife.net )

  • Levying Property Tax Arbitrary, Undemocratic: Tarigami

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    SRINAGAR: Former legislator and CPI( M) leader Mohamad Yousuf Tarigami has termed the levying of property tax in Jammu and Kashmir as “arbitrary and undemocratic”.

    In a statement CPI(M) leader Tarigami said that the process of collecting tax and deciding the values of the tax is the sole prerogative of the elected institutions — the legislature to frame laws and the municipal councils/corporations to decide the forms and different values according to their objective realities.

    “Levying property tax in absence of an elected government is quite unconstitutional. Even the elected municipal bodies were not consulted,” he said in a statement.

    He added that the most objectionable part of the notification is the decision of deciding the values from the centre.

    “These are the towns and cities to decide the values and not the centre, as mandated by the 74th Constitutional Amendment. The notification is ultra vires to  the constitutional mandate,” Tarigami said, adding that the locking period of three years is also arbitrary.

    “The cities must be given the prerogative to decide when they want to change their values and there should not be any particular locking period,” he said.

    He demanded the immediate withdrawal of the notification.

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    ( With inputs from : kashmirlife.net )

  • Stop Creating Fear Among People: Tarigami

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    SRINAGAR: CPI(M) leader Mohamad Yousuf Tarigami has asserted that the ongoing so called anti-land encroachment drive and eviction has on ground generated fear among the common masses.

    In a statement issued in Jammu today, the CPI(M) leader said, while big land grabbers have to be identified and action be taken strictly under law, the manner and the method used to evict the alleged land encroachers, especially the peasants, marginal farmers, small shopkeepers and those living in small houses constructed years back, sends a message that the administration is insensitive to the interests and sentiments of the general public and that of the individuals and organisations which express resentment against the reckless drive and coercive manner of the evictions.

    “If the present Campaign of eviction attains roughshod propostions, it will generate more resentment,” said Tarigami in a statement.

    The present ‘drive’ gives the impression as if the administration has waged a ‘war’ against the public, he said.

    The selection of areas and individuals for bulldozing, creates doubts regarding the real intentions of the administration.The eviction campaign seems selective and discriminatory, he added.

    Referring to the Chief Secretary’s latest directions to the officers regarding action against those who dare to criticize the handling of the eviction drive, Tarigami affirmed that it speaks of a highhanded approach of the dispensation.

    “Those at the helm should keep in mind that it has to function under the Constitution and it should not give the impression that there is an undeclared emergency in J&K. This will in no way serve the cause of peace, law and order and the larger interests of the country,” said Tarigami in a statement.

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    ( With inputs from : kashmirlife.net )