Rohan Kamble Jr.Engineer resigns over non-mandated workload
After the 70 hour week and 90 hour week work headlined and debated, now a News comes of a Maharashtra PWD Junior Engineer Rohan Kamble. He gave up his job citing non-mandated workload.
Rohan claims violation of human values and labour laws, mental and financial exploitation.
The Maharashtra’s Dharashiv district PWD Engineer sent his resignation letter to the additional chief secretary of the department claiming “violation of basic human values and labour laws” as he was deployed for works other than what his post mandates.
Interacting with the media, Rohan Kamble, in his letter, said he is supposed to look after works related to the police department, government guesthouses in Dharashiv and Shingoli as well as pursuing proposals sent from the local office to the PWD headquarters at the secretariat.
However, with regret, Kamble, in the letter, claimed he was burdened with assignments related to MPSC and UPSC exams, meetings chaired by MPs and MLAs.
These constitute “labour work in the pre-Independence era” and was “violation of basic human values and labour laws”, Kamble added in the letter sent to the PWD additional chief secretary.
He alleged he was being “exploited mentally and financially”.
Kamble also mentioned in the letter that immediate superiors had tried to ease his workload but he had chosen to quit since he was not a slave anymore.
News Edit KV Raman
