Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Aug 28: Voluntarily retired employees of J&K Road Transport Corporation held strong protest demonstration and dharna against the RTC Management and J&K Transport Department authorities at Rail Head in Jammu in support of their demands
Led by VRS Union president, Dev Raj Bali, the retired / VRS given JKRTC workers also conducted `Gherao’ of the office of Managing Director and staged dharna for several hours. They were shouting slogans against the Transport authorities for not releasing the pending dues of the VRS given employees.
They alleged that in the BoD meeting just held here, the Managing Director has not placed the case of arrears of the VRS accorded employees of the JKRTC. They have deceived the VRS Union as despite assurances their case was put in the cold storage. Their case has already been delayed by 12 years and during this period about 75 VRS/ retired employees have breathed their last but they were denied the benefits of COLA and others arrears.
They have appealed to the Prime Minister Modi and Lt Governor Manoj Sinha to intervene into the matter and issue directions to the concerned authorities to provide justice to the agitating VRS given JKRTC workers.
Bali said they have not been paid their COLA, DA and 6th Pay Commission arrears by the JKRTC authorities despite the fact that Central Government has paid an amount of Rs 76.95 crore to them including payment of the arrears of the more than 700 employees. Their total DA amount comes out to around Rs 66.24 crores.
Bali was accompanied by Sat Bhushan Singh, Surinder Singh, Balvinder Singh, Shiv Kumar, Ram Paul and others.
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