Payment of pending dues since 2012
Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Feb 27: J&K Cements Ltd Retired Employees Front have sought the immediate intervention of Lt Governor, Manoj Sinha in releasing their unpaid and legitimate retirement dues since 2012.
In an appeal to LG, the Front urged him to look into the matter as the retired employees are running from pillar to post for justice over a decade now but to no avail. The Front said that the employees are facing miseries and many hardships as they have not been paid the due dues and retirement benefits till date. It
said even some retired employees have not been paid the salaries for three to four years.
Highlighting the plight of the employees Front said many of the retired employees are at the verge of starvation as they have nothing to feed their families. Being in old age many of the employees and their spouse are suffering from various ailments and they are even unable to have a proper medical checkup and purchase medicines due to paucity of money.
Some of the retired employees are also unable to perform the marriage ceremonies of their grown up daughters. The employees are in a pathetic situation and suffering from trauma and agony. Pinning high hopes in the LG administration, the Front representatives said they have a firm belief that directions will be issued to concerned authorities to sort out the issue so that the aggrieved retired employees of the corporation will get justice so that they are relieved of mental agony.
The Front said that J&K administration has already initiated action for disinvestment / sale of JK Cements Ltd , assets to meet the liabilities of retired employees but the procedure is too lengthy and will take a lot of time and on the other hand, the retired employees are on ventilator with their families on begging stage.
The Front said keeping the plight of the retired employees in view, the Government should at least release 50 percent of the retirement dues in favour of the retired employees out of plan funds of JK UT Government which can later be adjusted against the sale deed amount of assets of the company so that the retired employees of the JK Cements Ltd will heave a sigh of relief and they can overcome their miserable financial condition to some extent.
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