| CITU condemns freezing of DA for central govt employees, pensioners | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Apr 24: The State Committee of Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) condemns the Central Govt’s decision to freeze, rather confiscate the increase in Dearness Allowance payable to Central Govt employees and pensioners falling due from January 2020 and also future dues, falling due on July 2020 and January 2021 on the plea of financial crisis arising out of COVID 19 vide Finance Ministry Order no 1/1/2020-E-II(B) dated 23rd April 2020.
In a joint statement issued by Om Parkash, General Secretary, S.P.Kesar, Sr. leader,Muzafar Wani, vice president, Jagdish Sharma, Jia Lal Parihar, Abdul Rashid Nazar secretaries said that no doubt, the country has been passing through a financial crisis but why should the workers and employees be made the sacrificial item for the same who themselves suffer most owing to Covid-19 followed by lockdown. Quite a number of employees are deployed and consequently are involved in various governmental activities and services meant to combat the spread of the pandemic Covid-19 especially of those departments declared as emergency services viz, health, postal, defence, railways etc. While taking such decision Govt did not bother to consult the unions and federations of the central govt employees, displaying rabid authoritarianism.
CITU strongly urges that a plenty of wealth is amassed by a handful of rich class through undue and illegitimate patronization of the economic policy of government of India therefore they must be taxed to meet the financial crises arises out of COVID-19 instead of brutally pouncing on the working peoples’ earnings and livelihood. And this right is vested with the Central Govt only.
CITU strongly condemns this retrograde decision of the Central Govt to confiscate outright the legitimate dues of the employees and pensioners on account of increase in DA till January 2021, although prices of all essentials will continue to increase to further increase the profit of the big-business/corporate. CITU demands withdrawal of this DA Confiscation order by the central government, also demands that the state governments be extended financial help to enable continuity of variable DA payment to their employees. CITU calls upon the Govt employees’ movement in particular and the trade union movement in general to unitedly oppose this retrograde anti-worker measures. |
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