Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Apr 16: Clerical cadre employees from various Government departments and PSUs today observed complete pen down strike and held protest demonstration across the State.
The protest and one day strike/black day programme was held the banner of Jammu Kashmir Ladakh All Departments Clerical Staff Association (JKLADCA). The clerical cadre employees of all the departments observed complete strike in support of their demand and observed black day. At Srinagar and Jammu, the protests were held at provincial level while in all other district headquarters including Leh, the employees also staged protest dharnas.
The protest today was held against the Government decision of the Government to implement the 7th Pay Commission without resolving the accepted disparity of the clerical cadre recommended by two empowered committees. They termed it as sheer injustice and deception by the Government despite of promise of its removal with the Pay Commission in the Budget 2017-18. They condemned the statement of present Finance Minister during interview on a TV Channel in which he announced his decision to go ahead with the implementation of 7th Pay Commission without resolving the issue of pay anomalies.
They reminded that even the former Finance Minister Dr Drabu during meeting in the Civil Secretariat on 9-10-2017 had briefed the media clarifying that Government would remove the pay anomalies with the implementation of 7th Pay Commission report.
In Jammu strong protest demonstration was held at Udhyog Bhawan Rail Head Complex where several senior trade union leaders including Babu Hussain Malik, Bharat Bhushan, Ravi Singh Bhau, Nazir Ahmed Bhat, Sukhbir Singh, Anil Mehta, Munish Sharma, Yash Paul Sharma, Rajinder Singh, Mohd Latief, Rohit Gorge, Umar Jan and others addressed the gathering. They criticized the Government for ignoring their demand. They urged upon the Government to implement the principally agreed demands.
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