Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, May 6: Cleri-cal cadre employees who were on strike for the last about two weeks, today suspended their agitation after assurance by the Minister for Finance, Syed Mohd Altaf Bukhari.
A six-member delegation of Coordination Committee of All Jammu Kashmir Ladakh Clerical Cadre Staff Association including Mohd Sultan Mir, Babu Hussain Malik, Ravi Singh Bhau, Geelani Nayak, Mohd Farooq and Ali Mohd Mir on the initiative of the Govt participated in the meeting at Srinagar this evening. After firm assurance from the Finance Minister and Chief Secretary, they decided to suspend their agitation for one month. A spokesman of the Coordination Committee said that all the clerical cadre employees would resume their duties from Monday (May 7).
Meanwhile, an official spokesman said that Minister of Finance, Labour and Employment Altaf Bukhari while chairing the meeting with representatives of clerical cadre discussed their demand and assured to resolve the same within one month. He claimed by he is hopeful of getting this issue resolved maximum within three weeks.
Chief Secretary BB Vyas, Principal Secretary Finance Naveen Choudhary and Director Codes Mohammad Rafi Andrabi also attended the meeting. The meeting termed the issues raised by the clerical cadre as genuine and assured that the problem shall be resolved in a time-bound manner. The meeting agreed in principle to the suggestions made by the representatives of the cadre.
The Minister observed that the exact roll-out of the framework to resolve their grievances related to pay scales will be ensured within a month in which all necessary modalities will be worked out.
The Minister remarked that although the frame-work will mean a huge financial burden on the State-exchequer, yet in the larger interest of the people and the employees, the Government will resolve it, adding that the Government will accord a favourable consideration to the suggestion put-forth by representatives of the Association.
Bukhari solicited the cooperation of the employees to resume their work immediately in order to mitigate the sufferings of the general public, to which the representatives agreed. Later, Bukhari also spoke to a large number of clerical cadre employees waiting outside the venue.
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