Srinagar, March 11 -- Hakeem Muhammad Yaseen, President of Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Democratic Front (PDF) and former minister, on Tuesday strongly criticized the formation of a new committee for the regularization of daily wagers, calling it a repeated exercise with no tangible outcomes.

Reacting to the announcement made by Chief Minister Omar Abdullah regarding a high-powered committee headed by the Chief Secretary, Yaseen stated that merely forming committees will not address the plight of thousands of daily wagers, ad hoc, and casual laborers who have been waiting for years for their regularization.

"Committees have been formed in the past as well-be it during the tenure of CM Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, CM Ghulam Nabi Azad, or even the...