Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Apr 18: The J&K Employees Joint Action Committee (EJAC) has urged the J&K Government to release the pending salaries and wages of employees and all the temporary workers before Eid.
In a statement issued to press, the president EJAC Fayaz Ahmad Shabnam today said that the auspicious day of Eid is fast approaching and yet the hundreds of employees and temporary workers are without salaries despite their repeated requests for the release of their earned salaries and wages.
Shabnam said that withholding of earned salaries has added to their miseries and worries in these hard times and are forced to starvation. He added that these employees have always been on front line to combat any calamity and non- payment of earned salaries and wages is quite injustice not only with them but with their families as well.
The EJAC president, Fayaz Ahmad Shabnam urged the Government especially the Chief Secretary Dr Arun Kumar Mehta and the Financial Commissioner, Atal Dullo to intervene into the matter personally and redress the genuine grievances of the employees and workers by releasing their salaries and wages before Eid so that these employees & workers can heave a sigh of relief and celebrate Eid with their children and families.
Fayaz Shabnam expressed hope that the Government will resolve the issue of pending salaries and wages in the larger interests of the poor workers before festival.
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