Release
COLA
Sir,
While
framing the policy for the release of
balance DA instalments and merger of 50
percent DA with the basic pay of the
State Government employees by the three
member Government Committee framed by the
State Government recently, the woes of
the Public Sector Undertaking employees
may also be taken care of. It is really
painful to note that the Government of
the day is not taking any cognizance of
the plight of the hapless employees of
the public sector undertakings, who by
virtue of their nature of the job are
putting much more efforts in building the
socio-economic fabric of the state by
putting extra working hours, hazardous
nature of jobs, less number of holidays
and leave entitlement etc as compared to
their counterparts in the State
Government. For the last few years that
whenever the question of release of Cost
of Living Allowance to PSU employees
arose, the Government dragged its feet
out by reciting the only 'mantra' that
the PSU's are not performing well. Thus
depriving them of their due share of Cost
of Living Allowance that automatically
ought to have become due to them on
account of rise in prices of day-to-day
necessities. What an irony, when
Government takes care of one set of State
employees by releasing Dearness Allowance
and other facilities to them but denies
it to the other set of employees of the
State public sector who too are exposed
to the vagaries of nature and price rise?
Does it not become incumbent upon the
Government to dispense justice alike to
all sets and categories of employees ?
Now in the
given situation, the three member high
powered committee in the saddle to deal
with the various issues of the State
employees, as a welfare state, does it
not become incumbent upon the Government
of the day headed by Mufti Sahib and Pt
Mangat Ram Sharma to take the cognizance
of the plight of the PSU employees and
wide the scope of the Government
Committee to include the release of Cost
of Living Allowance to the PSUs as well.
Yours
etc....
Rajendra Razdan,
Jammu.
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