Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Mar 18: President of the National Mazdoor Conference (NMC) Subash Shastri today appealed to Finance Minister Syed Altaf Bukhari to issue SRO or notification regarding implementation of the 7th Pay Commission report in respect of Government employees and pensioners so that benefits of the same accrue to them from April 2018.
“The process of fixation of pay/pension will be time consuming and it become necessary to issue such notification in view of closure of financial year 2017-18”, Shastri said while interacting with media persons here.
Pleading the cause of 61,000 daily rated workers working in the various Government departments, Shastri said that proper amendments in SRO 520 may be incorporated so that cumbersome verification process should not be a cause of inconvenience for the several thousands of these daily rated workers who have put their soul in the public utilities for over more than 20 years of their service.
He also demanded release of 2 per cent instalment of DA due from January1, 2018, creation of wage head for uninterrupted release of monthly wages to the daily rated workers, issuance of regularization orders of left over daily rated workers of RDD of Jammu region, immediate acceptance the recommendations of the Ashok Lasva headed high power committee, enhance medical allowance to Rs 3000 per month and increase in the wages of daily rated workers to Rs 350 per day.
Among others present were Rajan Babu Khajuria, BS Jamwal, Jai Paul Sharma, Isher Dass, Surinder Kumar, Suraj Parkash, Bupinder Singh and Ramesh Sharma.
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