JAMMU: The Dharmarth Trust management alleged that its protesting employees had adopted a rigid and unreasonable stance and were not ready to meet with the Trustees or Trust management in order to reach a consensus as they repeatedly refused several offers from the Trust for a dialogue.
“These employees continue to be misguided and instigated by some vested interest, and are not ready or interested in a solution to their ongoing agitation,” the Trust said in a statement, issued here. The Trust spokesperson alleged that some vested interests have been misleading and instigating these employees for their own personal motives and to create disturbance in the functioning of the Trust which has been looking after temples in Jammu and Kashmir for more than 150 years. “We have offered these employees to sit and have a discussion with the Trustees on their issues and demand. But they have repeatedly refused the same. They are not willing to talk,” said the spokesperson, adding that the Trust had invited senior representatives of the Dharmarth Trust Employees Association to come forward for direct negotiations with the Trustees last week.
However, he said, the Employees Association was not willing to meet for a dialogue regarding a solution that could have benefited a large number of the employees. “In a formal letter, Vikramaditya Singh, Trustee of the Trust had invited a 5-member team consisting of current employees to represent the association in a meeting which was to be held on January 22. The employees were promised that the Trust would do everything in its capacity to try and address ongoing grievances at the earliest possible.
However, the employees are not willing to even meet with the Trustees or Management and have continued their rigid and unreasonable stance,” the spokesperson explained and added that the Trust even renewed its offer but in vain as these misled employees don’t want any solution.
