Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Oct 25: National Mazdoor Conference (NMC) has appealed the Lieutenant Governor to release pending instalment of four percent DA due from July this year in favour of the UT Government employees and pensioners as the same have already been released by the Central Government and Ladakh Government to its employees and pensioners.
“We demand release of four per cent DA in favour of J&K 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 beside releasing 18% DA arrears to employees working in both Central/ UT Governments.
Among others present on the occasion 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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