Ghulam Hassan Mir And Ors. vs State Of J And K And Ors. on 10 June, 2003
5. The admitted fact in this case is that the appellants have been engaged for keeping the offices and Schools clean, i.e., as Safaiwallas, and they have been discharging their such duties over a period often years on meagre payments. It is beyond one's imagination that a person would be in a position to make his both ends meet with the sort of negligible remunerations these persons are being paid. One should not take it as their fail acconipli. On account of the socio-economic conditions of the general masses in the Country as a whole and, in particular the State of Jammu and Kashmir, there is a great need not only for providing job security but also to remunerate such workers commensurate with having, atleast, two meals so that people, like the appellants herein, are not exploited. It would be apt to refer herein to the observations made by their lordships of the Supreme Court in K. C. Rajeevan v. State of Kerala, (1991) ISCC 31, while dealing with similar almost a situation: