Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, June 3: Senior National Conference leaders of Jammu province today welcomed the bold decision of Chief Minister Omar Abdullah to enhance the retirement age of the employees from 58 to 60 years, as also the upper age limit for youths to obtain Government job from 37 to 40 years.
In a joint statement, the NC leaders also complimented Omar Abdullah for constituting a panel for studying all other demands of the employees, outside the ambit of Finance Department, within a month.
Describing the initiatives of the Chief Minister with regard to employees and unemployed as historic, the leaders appreciated the deadline of one month fixed by him for the Finance Department to finalise its recommendations on casual employees.
Signatories to the joint statement included Provincial president, Devender Singh Rana, Surjit Singh Slathia, Khalid Najeeb Suharwardhy, Abdul Gani Malik, Th Rachpal Singh, Aijaz Jan, Vijay Bakaya, Dr Shehnaz Ganai, Ajatshatru Singh, Bimla Luthra, Master Noor Hussain, S Harbans Singh, Mirza Abdul Rasheed, Mushtaq Ahmed Bukhari, Rattan Lal Gupta, Babu Ram Paul, Brij Mohan Sharma, Th Kashmira Singh, Qazi Jalal-ud-Din, Mohammed Aslam Khan, Rahim Dad, Ikhlaq Khan, Dr Chaman Lal, Vijay Laxmi Dutta, Mohammed Iqbal Bhat, Jagjeevan Lal, Haji Mohammed Hussain, Satpal Lakhotra, Sheikh Bashir Ahmed, Gian Chand, Suram Singh, Bushan Lal Bhat, Bashir Ahmed Wani, Shafayat Khan, Ch Liaqat Ali Adv ocate, Gurdeep Singh Sasan, Rajesh Gupta, Sunil Verma, Surinder Singh Bunty, Mohammed Ayub Malik, Abdul Gani Teli, Rajesh Bakshi, Dr Kamal Arora, Ch Shabir Ahmed Ganai, Zaffar-ullah Rather, Sajjad Shaheen, Jugal Mahajan, Taranjeet Singh Tony, Anil Dhar, Ravi Dogra, Pradeep Bali, Manveer Kour and others.
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