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| After protests spill over, Director Info takes U-turn | | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Sept 29: After facing massive protests from the employees across Jammu and Kashmir, Director of Information and Public Relations (DIPR), Rahul Pandey on Wednesday rescinded the arbitrary order to withhold the salaries of 52 employees.
According to the details available with Early Times the employees locked the district information offices in Kulgam, Anantnag. The employees staged a protest inside the office of Joint Director in Srinagar this morning. Employees also staged protest outside Directorate office and Joint Director's office in Jammu.
As the protests intensified the Director Information decided to rescind the order which had asked the Drawing and Disbursing Officers (DDOs) not to release the salaries of the employees without the attendance proof.
It's in place to mention here that employees had on Tuesday after the order to withhold the salaries of 52 employees was issued the employees locked all units, including PR and Advertisement sections, Cultural Unit, Field Publicity and establishment section.
While talking to reporters, Vice-President Employees Union, Bilal Ahmad had said that the employees have been working around the clock every year, despite all this they were being treated like absconders. "We have a work schedule of 15 hours. We have employees who have been sent to Sonamarg to cover the event of Union Minister Nitin Gadkari. They left Srinagar at around 5:30 am in the morning and will return late in the evening. Despite that salaries of 52 employees have been withheld for unknown reasons," he had stated.
An employee from the Information department said, "The order that has been withdrawn was about the absence of employees but the fact is that no employee remains absent and works round the clock." |
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