Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, June 19: Subash Shastri, President of National Mazdoor Conference (NMC) today urged upon the Prime Minister to immediately appoint chairman and other members of the 8th Pay Commission.
Addressing the NMC workers, Shastri said that notification for constitution of the 8th pay commission is the need of the hour, which is bound to have bearing on about one crore employees and pensioners, both in Central as well as State Governments.
He said that commission should timely expedite the report so that the implementation gets executed well before 01-01-2026, due date for revision of 8th pay commission.
“50 percent of DA should be forthwith merged into basic pay and pension”, he said, adding, 20 percent interim relief should be sanctioned as early as possible in favour of the employees and pensioners, so that they would get sigh of relief of rising prices and inflation.
He stressed the need to immediately restore old pension scheme in place of NPS as confidence building measures as many states like Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan, Punjab, Karnataka have restored old pension scheme in favour of NPC employees and hoped that the New NDA Government at the Centre will take positive step in this regard.
Shastri also appealed to Prime Minister to release 18 months pending DA arrears, beside regularization of daily wagers who have completed seven years of service in March, 2024, adding their monthly emoluments should be raised to Rs. 18,000 per month.
Among other who were also present during the meeting included Rajan Babu Khajuria, B.S Jamwal, Surinder Kumar, Ramesh Sharma, Chaman Lal, Birbal, Raman Sharma, Vinod Kumar, ex-Sarpanch Sukhdev Singh, Ram Singh, Subash Sharma and Ram Lal Sharma.
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