Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, June 7: Stressing on the need of challenges being faced by salaried class of the country due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, President of National Mazdoor Conference (NMC) Subash Shastri and other NMC activists urged Prime Minister Modi to revoke its earlier order in freezing of DA payable to both Centre, State and UT Government employees and pensioners also due from January 1, 2020 to June 30, 2021.
Both Central, State and UT employees are the forefront of battle against COVID-19 pandemic risking their safety and life are doing extra ordinary service to the nation by taking enormous risks, said Shastri and others in a joint statement issued here today.
They pointed out that dearness relief is not wage increase its just a compensation against the erosion of real wages and the cost of living and inflation and this is the only source with them to cater the dearness needs. They further said that freezing of DA will severely impact life and living of the salaried class and pensioners demanded an early revoking of DA freezing order.
They also urged the LG to ensure timely disbursement of pending wages for years together and hope that UT Jammu and Kashmir Government shall also earmark separate wage heads for regularly disbursement of monthly salary till their regularization
The signatories in the statement included Rajan Babu Kahjuria, BS Jamwal, Surinder Kumar, Ramesh Sharma, Tarsem Sharma, Gardhari lal Bhagat , Darshan Bawa, Gara Ram and others.
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