Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Oct 21: Peeved over the State Government’s two parameters in releasing salary advance on festivals for the employees of Jammu region and Kashmir valley, Harsh Dev Singh Chairman JKNPP and former Minister lambasted the ruling alliance particularly the BJP for the most hostile and differential treatment doled out to the employees of Jammu region who were deprived of their wages and salaries on Diwali eve despite the practice of festival advance existing in the State.
While addressing the media, Singh regretted that the State dispensation had not granted any festival advance or advance salary to the Jammu based Government employees on the eve of Diwali, contrary to the benefits and bonanza bestowed to the large section of its employees from Kashmir region on the occasion of Eid. “Even the Jammu employees majority of them in non-gazetted cadre who had moved to the winter capital with the Darbar had not been paid TA/ DA or any festival advance which had marred their Diwali with disappointment and resentment.
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