JAMMU, March 12 -- Chief minister Omar Abdullah on Tuesday announced a high-powered panel headed by chief secretary Atal Dulloo with the sole motive to come up with a roadmap for addressing the issue of regularising daily wagers, ad hoc workers and casual labourers across Jammu and Kashmir.

According to an old estimate of the previous PDP-BJP coalition government that fell apart in June 2018, Jammu and Kashmir had 61,000 such workers engaged by various government departments.

Apart from the chief secretary, the panel has an additional chief secretary in the chief minister's office and secretaries of the general administration, planning and law departments, respectively.

The committee has been given six-month time to come up with a fram...