Garhshankar 09 September (Balveer Chowpra) The meeting of PWD Field and Workshop Workers Union Branch Garhshankar was held under the chairmanship of Branch President Vinod Kumar. In which the Chief Secretary of the Water Resources Department Mr. Krishna Kumar has eliminated the posts of various categories in the department under the name of reorganization. Against this, a large number of employees of Branch Garhshankar will join the protest in front of the Principal Secretary's office on 15 September 2023. Makhan Singh Wahidpuri, president of PWD Field and Workshop Workers Union, Punjab, while giving information, said that Punjab is one of the important departments of the government, whose main task is to conserve ground water and natural river water for agriculture and for drinking purposes. Maintenance of 14500 km long canal network. Along with this, water has to reach every corner of Punjab for irrigation. 25,000 employees of different categories worked in this department. Now the government of Aam Aadmi Party, which came into existence by promising to get the unemployed youth of Punjab away from drugs by giving decent jobs, like the previous governments reduced the size of the departments and made the first employees engaged in employment the deadly monster of unemployment. Under the new economic policies, about 12,500 posts have been vacated in the department under the downsizing of the department. Discontinued posts include Work Master, Assistant Law Officer, Beldar, Pump Operator, Plumber, Mason, Fitter, Carpenter, Tar Babu, Driver, Data Entry Operator, Sr. Tar Babu, Chief Tar Babu, Stenographer, Divisional Accountant, Draftsman, Mate. , RC, ARC JDM Includes Time Clerk, , Superintendent etc. The importance of the irrigation department has increased instead of decreasing. There is an urgent need to bring maximum area under canal water to save ground water and prevent it from going down further. Therefore, the existing canal network needs to be further improved and expanded. Apart from this, there is a need for re-lining and re-planning of decades old canals, sluices, drains and ditches. In order to carry out this work, there is a need to increase the existing posts instead of cutting them. The sooner the government or concerned authorities understand this urgent need, the better. The abolished posts should be reinstated. Gurnam Sigh Nehri, Channan Ram Thandhi, Joginder Singh, Tilak Raj, Amarjit Singh, Satish Kumar, Madan Lal, Valbhadhar Singh, Jagdish Lal, Ramesh Kumar, Raman Thandhi were present on this occasion.