 Early Times Report
Jammu, Mar 6: Under the banner of All J&K SRTC Volunteer Retired Employees Association, VRS employees today staged a protest demonstration against State SRTC for not clearing their pending dues.
Addressing the protesting VRS employees, president, VRS Union, Dev Raj Bali strongly criticized the attitude of SRTC and higher authorities of Transport department towards VRS and GHS employees of State SRTC and accused the administration of negligence. He added that he has approached previous Government and Governor Satyapal Malik many times but nothing has been done till now .
Bali said our own Department is doing injustice with us, as on one hand our services have gone and on the other hand our dues, which were promised to be cleared within 60 days from the date of VRS and GHS, are still pending.
Reiterating the demands of the Association, which included COLA arrears since 1999, 6th Pay Commission arrears with effect from 1st January 2006, pension benefits and bonus at the rate of 8.33 % on basic pay, Surinder Singh appealed Governor SP Malik to intervene personally to release the dues of VRS/GHS employees. |
