Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Mar 1: President of the National Mazdoor Conference (NMC) Subash Shastri has appealed to the Prime Minister to release the pending installment of DA in favour of both central and JKUT Governments employees and pensioners.
“We demand release of 3 per cent DA in favour of Central and JKUT employees and pensioners. DA is the part of salary and routine financial matter and as such there should be no hitch in releasing it”, NMC President Subash Shastri said while addressing the workers here today.
He also demanded exemption of DA from ambit of Income Tax as it is linked with price index.
Shastri further demanded separate wage head for regularly disbursement of monthly salary of daily rated workers till their regularization, enhancement of their wages to Rs 600 per day, regularizing their services under SRO 64, setting up Labour Welfare Board, implementation of all Central laws in the UT besides granting medical allowance of pensioners to Rs 1000 per month at par with Central Government.
Among others who were present were Rajan Babu Khajuria, BS Jamwal, Surinder Kumar, Ramesh Sharma, Sarpanch Sukhdev Singh, Mohammad Sadiq, Mushtaq Ahmed, Tarsem Sharma and JP Sharma.
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