Jammu and Kashmir government today invoked the Essential Service Maintenance Act (ESMA) against its Public Health Engineering department employees who are to begin a strike from tomorrow demanding higher wages.
"The government declared the strike call given by a section of Public Health Engineering (PHE) employees from February 15, 2011 as illegal and repugnant to the public interest. It has decided to invoke sections of ESMA against the employees to ensure that people do not suffer on account of the strike", an official spokesman said here.
A section of PHE employees has decided to go on strike for 72 hours from February 15 to press for the implementation of their demands.
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