Srinagar, Oct. 17 -- On the completion of one year of Omar Abdullah's government, thousands of daily wage and casual labourer employees held a protest convention on Thursday reminding the National Conference government of its promise of their regularisation. The CM, however, said that the regularisation process has been started in various departments.

The National Conference in its manifesto last year had promised that it will formulate a policy for regularisation of casual labourers, daily wagers, CIC operators, contractual employees, home guards and other temporary employees in a time bound manner.

Thousands of such employees under the banner of Employees Joint Action Committee (EJAC) converged at Municipal Park in Srinagar and held a...