Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Nov 13: A joint meeting of All India Pension Restoration United Front, National Old Pension Restoration United Front, Employees Joint Action Committee (R), JK Teachers Association and many other organizations of employees of J&K was held here today.
Speakers in the meeting demanded restoration of Old Pension Scheme (OPS) and scrapping of New Pension Scheme (NPS) and threatened that employees of J&K will come on roads if the same will not be done.
They said that OPS should be restored immediately in favour of teachers, employees and officers appointed after January 1, 2010.
“NPS is totally against the employees and is injustice with employee as well as their family members,” they maintained adding: “NPS does not guarantee minimum pension to the employees and the government should immediately withdraw the ordinance in this regard.”
They claimed that several recently retired Government employees are not able to even pay their monthly electricity and other bills with the pension they are get under NPS.
“An MP or MLA who wins and serves for 5 years gets pension for lifetime, while those who serve for more than 40 years are denied proper pension after retirement,” leaders of the employees said.
The meeting was attended by Bhupinder Singh, national convener AIPRUF; Babu Hussain Malik, president EJAC(R); Rajesh Kumar, general secretary NOPRUF and others.
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