Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Oct 22: All J&K Low Paid Employees’ Federation (LPEF) has urged upon the Governor’s Administration to pay 3rd and final installment of 7th CPC arrears payable in the month of October 2019 and release of 5% DA installment, due from July 2019 in respect of State employees and pensioners.
Abdul Majid Khan, president, LPEF, in a handout issues here, said that prices of all essential goods of daily consumption are shooting sky high day by day due to anti-people and anti-working class policies of the ruling class of the Country due to which the employees are unduly suffering acute financial hardships as such payment of outstanding dues forthwith is essentially needed in order to provide them some kind of relief and respite from the pangs and miseries of galloping retail price index.
The Federation Chief also sought regularization of daily wage workers, adhoc/contractual employees, ReT teachers and Anganwari workers/helpers expeditiously, payment of pending wages/salary forthwith, enhancement of medical allowance from Rs 300 to at least Rs 1000, health insurance cover to employees and pensioners with easily affordable annual premium, raise in remuneration of village guards at par with minimum daily wage in vogue in the State and honorarium of numberdars, ReT teachers, Anganwari wokers/helpers commensurate with rise in the price index.
Khan also laid stress upon Principal Accountant General, Jammu/Srinagar to get the process of revising the pension under formulation II of Government Order No. 222-F of 2018 accomplished at the earliest so that the pensioners, especially the older ones able to avail the benefit of pension revision in their life time and also address and redress the other long outstanding grievances of pre -2006 pensioners expeditiously.
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