PESHAWAR: The employees of Workers Welfare Board and working folks grammar schools and colleges have threatened to observe sit-ins outside the Governor House and the Chief Minister House in the provincial capital if the government didn`t release their three months salaries without delay.

Talking to mediapersons outside the press club here on Monday the workers said delay in payment of salaries had caused them mental agony.

The protesters said they had been visiting offices of relevant officials for payment of withheld salaries, but without any result.

They said that many workers had been posted to the institutions located in far flung areas and the delay in salarles` payment had caused serious financial problems for them as their families had no other source of income.

They were facing problems in payment of children`s fee, purchase of daily use items and payment of house rents, regretted the demonstrators.

When contacted, the secretary Workers Welfare Board, Zahid Ali, told Dawn that the federal government, which managed the board, had constituted a scrutiny committee for verification of the documents of some employees.

`The committee is expected to complete the process in a couple of days, and the salaries would be paid shortly afterwards,` he said.

Meanwhile, another group of the employees of the Workers Welfare Board had set up a protest camp along the Sher Shah Suri Road against the delay in regularisation of their services.

Talking to mediapersons, a leader of the protesters, Younus Marwat, said that the workers had been protesting for their rights for the past eleven days but the government was least bothered to pay any heed towards them.

The workers` demands, he said included service structure, job security, promotions and regularisation of contract employees.

He said the workers would continue protest till solution of their demands.

Mr Marwat said that while prices of daily use items were increasing fast the government was not increasing their salaries on the plea that they were contractual employees.