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| JCC threatens to intensify strike; Govt says ready for negotiations | | Sixth pay commission row | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Srinagar, Aug 5 (KNS): The striking employees in Jammu and Kashmir Friday threatened to intensify their agitation if the state government failed to address their ‘genuine’ demands immediately.
Talking to KNS Employees Joint Action Committee (K) chairman and Joint Consultative Committee leader, Khurshid Aalam said, “Under trade union act whatever is possible we will do that. JCC leaders will meet tomorrow and decide about the future strategy. We will intensify the strike in coming days.”
Reacting to government’s statement that strike of the employees was ‘illegal’ as High Court had declared so last year, Aalam said, “The HC had asked the employees to end the strike and at the same time government had been asked to solve the problems of its employees. We honored court order and called off strike, but the government has failed to honor the order.”
The EJAC chairman said that strike was democratic right of employees.
“Last year during strike the Chief Minister Omar Abdullah promised that all the demands of the employees would be fulfilled soon. More than a year has passed since but nothing has been done on ground,” he told KNS.
Rejecting senior minister, Taj Mohi-ud-Din’s claims that government wasn’t in a position to pay arrears to the employees, he said, “How did the same government paid arrears to IAS/IPS officer when they claim they have no money? Government says it has no money to pay a peon his arrears which won’t be more than Rs one lakh. But commissioner secretaries and other bureaucrats were paid more Rs 25 lakhs as arrears. It’s injustice with poor employees.”
Claiming that today’s pen down strike was 100 percent successful, Aalam said. “Not only in Kashmir division but in Jammu and Ladakh strike was successful.”
Minister for Rural Development Ali Mohammad Sagar said that government was always open for negotiations. “Employees are part and parcel of the government. Confrontation doesn’t suit them. Strike will add to the woes of people in the holy month of Ramdhan,” Sagar told KNS.
He said that government was committed on the promise which it had made with the employees. “In several states recommendations of sixth pay commission have not been implemented yet, but our CM has fulfilled most of the demands of the employees. My request to employees is to avoid confrontation,” Sagar who is also member of cabinet sub committee formed to examine the demands of employees told KNS.
“There are some elements within employees who want confrontation. But my appeal to employees is not to give ear to them as government is always ready for negotiations,” he added. |
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