Port Blair, March 26: The President, INTUC, Shri Kuldeep Rai Sharma through a letter to the Divisional Forest Officer, Nicobar Division, Campbell Bay has demanded that Uniform articles to Carpenters, Asst Carpenters, Mason, Asst Mason and other such categories of industrial employees working in Nicobar forest Division who were not issued such articles since 2005 be issued at the earliest. Sharma has also demanded for reimbursement of actual TA/DA for the mazdoors on daily wages who have crossed 240 days of continuous services and  deployed for govt. works beyond 8 KM of their head quarter camp.

He has stated that such employees are not getting TA/DA from the department for the journeys performed to attend Govt works beyond 8 Km from their head quarters. Sharma has also demanded to allow departmental conveyance to the place of works, which are connected with road and beyond 8 Km from Head quarters. He also demanded for an immediate repair of type I and type II quarters, which are in dilapidated condition and a CC footpath from the main approach to the residential accommodations allotted to KP Mohammed, Haneefa and P Selvam, regular mazdoors.