Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Apr 16: Demanding clearance of their pending dues and arrears, All J&K SRTC Volunteer Retired Employees (VRE) Association staged a protest here today.
The VRS employees led by president of the association Dev Raj Bali assembled at Press Club and raised slogans against the Government.
The protestors also raised slogans in favour of their demands including 126 slabs of Cost Of Living Allowance (COLA) pending since January 1, 2006, ex-gratia grant and pending arrears from 1999 and implementation of Sixth Pay Commission from January 1, 2006.
“The Government has failed to pay attention to our repeated protests. They have turned a deaf ear towards our demands”, Bali told reporters.
“We want the Government to pay us all the dues and arrears of Voluntary Retirement Scheme (VRS)”, he added.
We will continue our protest till our demands are met”, he said.
Among others present were Surinder Singh, general secretary, Kulbir Singh, JD Singh, BV Sharma, Prem Nath, Ehsan Elahi, Surjit Singh, Sain Mohammad, etc.
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