Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Apr 22: Volunteer retirement given employees of J&K State Road Transport Corporation criticized the Management of the Corporation for non-release of their pending dues.
The VRS accorded SRTC workers under the leadership of Dev Raj Bali, president All J&K SRTC Volunteer Retirement Employees Association, in a meeting held today condemned the attitude of Managing Director of the Corporation. They alleged that some officials in the Corporation were hell bent to deny them their dues.
The trade unionists including Bali, Balwinder Singh, D N Sharma, Prem Nath, Surjit Singh, Mohd Sharief, Ehsan Elahi and Javed Iqbal criticized the management of the Corporation for causing discrimination. They alleged that Management of the SRTC deliberately avoided to place their case in the agenda of the SRTC Board meeting held on April 10 this month. They said the VRS workers are being given lame excuses by the people at the helm of affairs in the SRTC. The management is just buying time. They pointed out that 670 VRS given employees of the Corporation are suffering for the last nearly three years.
These workers are demanding 126 slabs of cost of living allowances (COLA) with effect from January 1, 2006 and pending arrears of COLA since 1999 besides benefits of 6th Pay Commission from January Ist, 2006.
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