Contract workers in Gilgit Baltistan hold anti-govt demonstrations, demand regularisation of jobs

Sep 08, 2020

Gilgit Baltistan, 08 September, 2020: - Around 6,000 contract and contingent employees serving in different departments of illegally occupied Gilgit-Baltistan recently staged a protest in front of the Chief Secretary Office for the regularisation of their jobs. Even though the assembly has passed the regularisation of contract and contingent employees' act 2020 and the governor of Gilgit-Baltistan, Raja Jalal Hussain Maqpoon signed it on June 26; it has still not been implemented. The protesters demanded the immediate implementation of the Act which should have been done around two months back.