Jammu, Jul 9: All J&K SRTC Volunteer Retired Employees Association staged a protest today in front of Press Club against callous approach of the J&K SRTC and Finance Department for not clearing their pending dues. Led by VRS Union of SRTC, Dev Raj Bali, the protestors raised slogans against state government and SRTC management and demanded early redressal of the demands. While addressing the VRS employees criticized the attitude of higher authorities of Transport and Finance Department of the State towards VRS and GHS employees. He appealed the Chief Minister to take permission from Election Commission to get released the payments of VRS employee from the Finance Department of Civil Secretariat, Jammu. Bali and others speakers highlighted their demands including release of 126 slabs of COLA with effect from January 1, 2006, pending arrears with effect from 1999 and 6th Pay Commission arrears with effect from January 1, 2006. Among others who also addressed the protestors included Kulbir Singh, J D Singh, B V Sharma, Prem Nath, Ehsan Elahi, Surjit Singh, Surinder Singh and Sain Mohammad |