Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, June 14: Awami Mutahida Mahaz (AMM) has urged the government to revoke the New Pension Scheme and increase the honorarium of SPOs working in the police department.
Welcoming the Government initiative of giving service benefits of first five years of stipendiary service to the Rehber-e-Taleem (ReT) teachers and making it transferable, AMM leaders Mohammad Yousuf Tarigami, Hakim Mohammad Yasin, Abdul Rahsid Kabuli and Abdul Rehman Tukroo in a statement issued here appreciated the government decision.
“It was an overdue demand of the ReTs which have been met after hectic efforts put in by employees,” the leaders said.
The AMM leaders said that the government must scrap New Pension Scheme (NPS) which was implemented in Jammu and Kashmir from January 1, 2010 because not entitling the youth recruited in Jammu and Kashmir on or after January 1, 2010 to pensionary benefits, including pension, family pension and death-cum-retirement gratuity, under the NPS is sheer injustice with the employees who have been recruited after 2010.
The AMM leaders said that pension is a genuine right of an employee who serves the government for all his life.
“Now as the upper age limit for entry into the government job has also been increased to 40 years, it is right time that the government reverts back to the old pension policy. The way flawed new recruitment policy was scrapped, same way government should immediately announce scrapping of NPS,” the AMM leadership remarked.
They recalled services of Special Police Officers (SPOs) home guards and daily wagers but lamented that the government had let them down again. The AMM leaders pleaded the cause of SPOs, demanding their regularization and enhancement in their wages.
The AMM demanded release of 6th pay commission arrears in favour of urban local bodies, municipal corporation employees and regular payment of their salary, budgetary support and revival policy for public sector undertakings to generate employment.
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