Jammu, Feb. 20 -- Chief minister Omar Abdullah,on Thursday said that his government will start the process of regularising daily wagers, adhoc and other temporary workers in a legally and financially viable manner from new fiscal year in a phased manner, even as it works to fill nearly 30,000 vacant posts during the current year. Replying to the discussion on grants of his departments and cut motions in the legislative assembly, the CM said that every MLA highlighted their issue during the ongoing Budget session. "If I wanted to be dishonest to their sentiments then I would have kept quiet for 3 to 3.6 years and then in the last year of my government, could have dragged it for some time and then just before the elections I could have cited model code of conduct to wash off my hands. This is what has happened with them in the past," said Omar. He further said the issue of daily wagers and temporary workers was raised by members across party lines and acknowledged that theproblem had persisted for decades. "These employees have been struggling for 20, 30 and even 40 years. No government has been able to fully resolve the issue. We had brought the issue to a point but then our government ceased. We had done some exercise and handed it to PDP-BJP government but what they did, they better know," he said. The CM informed that a panel under chief secretary had been constituted to examine the matter. "Once the committee submits its report and the groundwork is completed, we will place everything before the people," he said. Over one lakh daily wagers and casual labourers are currently engaged across government departments in Jammu and Kashmir. He highlighted that the registered workforce includes 69,696 casual labourers, 8,836 daily rated workers, 8,534 seasonal labourers, 5,757 food and civil supplies helpers, 2,153 part-time sweepers and 1,929 persons engaged through the hospital development fund....