Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Apr 6: Voluntarily retired employees of J&K Road Transport Corporation today held protest demonstration against the RTC Management and J&K Transport Department authorities for not releasing the pending dues of the VRS given employees.
The retired (VRS) employees of the RTC under the leadership of Dev Raj Bali assembled near Press Club Jammu at around 10.30 am today and held protest demonstration. They were shouting slogans against the RTC management and also against the J&K Transport authorities.
They alleged that they have not been paid their COLA and 6th Pay Commission arrears by the RTC authorities despite the fact that Central Government has paid an amount of Rs 76.95 crore to them including payment of the arrears of more than 700 employees.
Bali said that most of them are senior citizens and struggling for their hard earned money for the last more than seven years. But the authorities concerned have failed to pay their arears. The officers in J&K administration are only harassing and adopting delaying tactics.
They appealed the Prime Minister Modi to intervene into the matter and provide justice to over 700 VRS given RTC workers, struggling for the last over seven years for getting their own hard earned money.
Bali was accompanied by Sat Bhushan Singh, Surinder Singh, Suraj Singh Trali, Deep Raj, Surjit Singh, Baldev Raj, Mohinder Singh, Ram Pal, Pappu Bhan and others.