Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Oct 10: Voluntarily retired employees of J&K Road Transport Corporation held protest demonstration today demanding release of pending dues of the VRS given employees.
The retired/VRS accorded employees of the JKRTC under the leadership of Dev Raj Bali assembled outside Press Club here today and started protest demonstration. They were carrying banner in their hand, projecting their burning issues. They expressed serious concern over the delay being caused in the release of their COLA and Pay Commission arrears.
The protestors alleged that they have not been paid their COLA and 6th Pay Commission arrears by the RTC authorities despite the fact that Central Government has paid an amount of Rs 76.95 crore including payment of the arrears of the more than 700 employees.
Bali said that most of them are senior citizens and struggling for their hard earned money for the last more than nine years. But the authorities concerned have failed to pay their arrears. The officers in J&K administration are only harassing them and adopting delaying tactics. He pointed out that at least 49 retired employees have passed away during one decade and the Government did not pay their arrears to them or their families till date.
They appealed the Prime Minister Modi and the Lt Governor, Manoj Sinha to intervene into the matter and provide justice to over 700 VRS given RTC workers of J&K, struggling for the last over eight years for getting their own hard earned money.
Prominent among those present during protest included, Surinder Singh, Sat Bhushan, Deep Raj, B B Sharma, Romesh Bhau, Ram Pal, Rajinder Sahni and others.
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