AJKLTF for Old Pension Scheme to secure future of employees

PSACWA president addressing a press conference on Saturday.
PSACWA president addressing a press conference on Saturday.

Excelsior Correspondent

SRINAGAR, Mar 26: All Jammu Kashmir & Ladakh Teachers Federation (AJKLTF), affiliated with Akhil Bharatiya Rashtriya Shakshik Mahasangh has asked the State as well as Central Government to withdraw the New Pension Scheme and replace it with the Old Pension Scheme.
Talking to media persons, here today, Devraj Thakur, President of AJKLTF, said that Federation was of the firm view that all employees including other Government employees have to get guaranteed pension and after the death of employee, Family Pension should be allow to his family.
Thakur said that NPS is totally against the employees and a great injustice with the employees as well as his family. “NPS is neither in the interest of nation nor does it give the guarantee of minimum pension to employees. We demand that Government should immediately withdraw the ordinance and allow old pension scheme to employees who joined their service after January 1, 2010,” he stressed.
Devraj Thakur claimed that several recently retired Government employees were not able to even pay their monthly electricity bills with the pension they are getting under the new scheme. “Isn’t this a humiliation by the Government for someone who has devoted half of his or her life to it?” he asked.
“An MP or MLA who wins and serves for five years, gets a pension his whole life. While we who serve for more than 40 years, are denied a pension after retirement,” Thakur added.
Maintaining that the pension is a kind of social security for the Government employee, who would face difficulty in their old age with no pension, Thakur announced that AJKLTF will organize the rallies to mobilize employees and garner public support on the issue.