Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, May 15: J&K Pensioners and Senior Citizens Welfare Society in a meeting at Srinagar today discussed the problems of State and Central Government pensioners as well as senior citizens.
The meeting was chaired by Mir Ghulam Rasool Butwani a veteran Trade Unionist. The meeting said that that the July installment of DA was released to pensioners and employees under the struggle of the Society and the J&K Legal Services Authority has brought the cases of pensioners before the Accountant General and urged it to settle it by ending July. The meeting also took stock of the recently held pensioners’ one day conference at Ganderbal in which delegates all over State took part.
Mir said the pensioners are intensifying struggle for their rights and cautioned the pensioners and employees of the forces who are playing anti working class role for their vested interests. He also cautioned the people about the political and trade union leaders giving hollow slogans and exploiting them. He said such leaders amassed huge money and made the people a scapegoat for their vested interests.
He said sugar is rotting in Government depots while the poor get the same at Rs 40 per kg in the market. Highlighting other problems of people, he said there is shortage of doctors and para medical staff in hospitals while people also face problems due to lack of proper facilities of transport facilities. He also appealed people to maintain brotherhood and communal amity. Ghulam Mohi-ud-Din Mallah, Habibullah Wani, G M Raina, Abdul Ahad Rather, Mohammed Shafi, Haji Mohammed Sultan, Ghulam Mohi-ud-Din, Bashir Ahmed Malik and others spoke in the meeting.
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