Early Times Report
JAMMU, Dec 20: Reiterating its earlier demand regarding revoking of decision of the Central Govt. with regard of freezing of release of DA instalments till June 2021 in favour of both central/states and UTs, employees and pensioners, National Mazdoor Conference (NMC)has appealed to the Prime Minister to re-consider the decision, since the instalments of the dearness allowance(DA) are additional supporting financial assistance to cope up the additional burden day to day rising prices of essential commodities and COVID-19 pandemic. “Reconsideration of the earlier decision of the Central Govt. has so become in evitable, dearness relief is not wage increase its just a compensation against the erosion of real wages and the cost of living,” Subash Shastri and others said this while addressing NMC workers meet here.
Stressing on the need of challenges being faced by the government employees and pensioners due to on going COVID-19,Shastri pointed out the salaried class of the country are the fore front of battle against COVID-19,risking their safety and life are doing ordinary service to the nation by taking enormous risk adding that freezing of DA will severely impact life and living of salaried class and pensioners. He said this is the only source with them to cater the dearness needs and demanded an early release of two installments of 4 and 5% DA due from January last and July 1,2020 to both central/ States and UTS. employees and pensioners, so that employees and pensioners would get sigh of relief from price index.
Pleading the cause of several thousands daily rated workers working in the various departments of UT. Jammu & Kashmir Govt. They also urged them to direct the Lt. Governor administration to ensure timely disbursement of long pending wages of daily rated workers for years together and hope that the NDA Govt. at the centre also issued necessary instruction to UT. Government to ear-mark separate wage head for regularly disbursement of their monthly salary till their regularization.
Rajan Babu Khajuria, B.S. Jamwal, Surinder Kumar, Ram Singh, Darshan Bawa, Ramesh Sharma, Tarseem Sharma, J.P. Sharma, Gara Ram, Mohd Sadeeq, Sarpanch Sukhdev Singh & others also spoke on the occasion. |
