Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Apr 24: National Mazdoor Conference (NMC) president, Subash Shastri here today appealed J&K LG to release the pending installments of four per cent DA due from January this year to the employees and pensioners of J&K.
He claimed that same has already been released by the Central and Ladakh Governments to their employees and pensioners.
“DA is part of salary and routine financial matter and as such there should be no hitch in releasing it,” Shastri said while addressing a meeting of NMC activists.
He also demanded exemption of DA from income tax as it is linked with price index.
The NMC leader further demanded separate wage head for regular disbursement of monthly salaries to daily rated workers till their regularization, enhancement of their wages to Rs 600 per day, regularizing their services under SRO 64, setting up of Labour Welfare Board, implementation of all Central laws in J&K besides granting Medical Allowance to pensioners of J&K at par with that given to their counterparts in Central government.
He also demanded release of 18 per cent DA arrears to employees of both Central and UT governments.
Rajan Babu Khajuria, B.S Jamwal, Sahib Khajuria, Ram Singh, Surinder Kumar, Ramesh Sharma, Sarpanch Sukhdev Singh, Mohammad Sadiq, Mushtaq Ahmed, Tarsem Sharma, J.P Sharma and others were also present on the occasion.
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