Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Jan 3: A meeting of Municipal and Urban Local Bodies Pensioners’ Association (MULBPA), Jammu Province was held here today under the chairmanship of its president BS Jamwal (Advocate) to discuss important issues and demand of the pensioners.
The meeting expressed anguish over the failure of the J&K Government in enhancing of medical allowance of pensioners from Rs 300 to Rs 1000 per month. The speakers said as J&K is now Union Territory, thus pensioners are entitled to get the same benefits which are provided to the Central Government employees and pensioners.
They demanded that benefits of Ayushman Bharat Scheme/ free medicare treatment must be extended to pensioners whose annual pension is less than Rs 5 lakh. Stating that abolition of Toll Plaza at Lakhanpur will increase smuggling of weapons, drugs, polythene, etc into J&K, they appealed the Government to review the decision.
The Association members also expressed concern over large scale illegal construction activities going on in Jammu City and filth and heaps of garbage lying here and there in lanes and by lanes of the City. They said earlier the Association has requested the JMC Mayor Chander Mohan Gupta to start door to door collection of garbage/waste on daily basis but till date nothing has been done in this connection by JMC.
They urged LG J&K Girish Chandra Murmu to look into the matter personally and issue appropriate orders at the earliest.
Prominent among those who attended the meeting were RK Gupta, KG Khajuria, BD Verma, BS Jamwal, Jawahar Lal Sharma, Attar Singh, DP Kotwal, Shiv Kumar Sharma, JR Sharma and many others.
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