Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Sept 2: National Mazdoor Conference (NMC) has urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi for an additional budgetary grant of Rs 9,000 crore for Jammu and Kashmir to meet the expense of regularizing 61,000 daily rated workers and to implement the 7th Pay Commission (PC) recommendations.
“We urge the Prime Minister to grant an additional Rs 9,000 crore for Jammu and Kashmir, so that it can meet the expenses of the regularization of 61,000 daily rated workers and also implement the 7th PC recommendations in the State,” NMC chief, Subash Shastri said here today.
Shastri also hailed the Centre’s decision of sending an all-party delegation headed by Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh to the State and expressed hope that it would help end the ongoing unrest in Kashmir valley.
The all-party delegation should also hold meetings with representatives of trade unions and employees federations to apprise themselves of their working conditions and their long-pending demands, the NMC chief said.