Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 29: All J&K RTC Volunteer Retired Employees Association today staged a protest demonstration near Maharaja Hari Singh Park, here against JKRTC for not clearing their pending dues.
Speaking to media persons during the protest, Union president Dev Raj Bali strongly criticized the discriminative attitude of Finance Department and the UT Government towards their demands of long pending arrears of COLA, 6th Pay Commission and DA.
“We are struggling to fulfill our demands for last more than 12 years and in this struggle 55 employees from Jammu province have breathed their last as they could not afford proper medical treatment due to paucity of money,” he said.
Bali appealed Central Government to take cognizance of their long pending demands and send a package, especially for the retired employees of JKRTC Jammu as they have already suffered a lot and are still struggling to get their dues.
Reiterating the demands of the Union, which include release of COLA arrears since 1999 to December 2005, 6th Pay Commission arrears with effect from January 2006 to March 2012 and DA arrears with effect from April 2012 to March 2021, Bali disclosed that total liability of 740 retired employees of Jammu province is close to Rs 66,24,21,998.
The Union members who participated in the protest were Sat Bhushan Singh, Surinder Singh, Prem Nath, GS Tohra, PP Singh, Rajinder Sawhney and Suraj Singh.
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