Excelsior Correspondent
UDHAMPUR, Nov 6: Senior Citizens Club Udhampur (SCCU) has appealed the Government to enhance the medical allowance and release the same with payment of arrears.
Addressing a press conference, President SCCU, Mahadeep Singh Jamwal said that a Government employee after his retirement is left to the mercy of God and is the most neglected category on the books of the Government as well as on the memory of the department that they have served for a considerable years of their life.
Flanked by Yash Pal Sharma, Kuldeep Kumar, Mohan Singh, Nanak Singh, Mukund Lal Verma and Chaggar Singh (other members of the Club), Jamwal expressed concern of the serving employees and in particular of the retirees of JKUT about keeping them deprived of the enhanced medical allowance amounting to Rs 1000 admissible under 7th Pay Commission.
“Needless to mention that on October 22, 2019, Modi Government made big announcement that Government employees of J&K and Ladakh will get all financial facilities as per 7th Pay Commission from October 31, 2019,” he said, adding, among the only financial facility available to retirees was medical allowance at the enhanced rate of Rs 1000 from existing Rs 300 per month but till date this decision never saw the light of the day.
Jamwal further said that it is an admitted fact that one fourth of the pension, a retiree receive is spent on doctors’ consultation fee, travelling expenses and medicines per month. “In the given circumstances, although enhanced medical allowance of Rs 1000 is not commensurate to meet the expenses, but the UT administration should at least release the enhanced medical allowance with payment of arrears before Diwali from the date erstwhile state was downgraded to UT i.e. October 31, 2019,” he added.
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