Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Apr 5: All J&K Retired NOG Police Personnel Forum today held a protest demonstration outside Press Club here to press the Government to consider their genuine demands.
A large number of retired police personnel under the leadership Ajeet Singh gathered in front of the Press Club and started raised slogans against the Government for ignoring them.
Addressing the protestors Ajeet Singh held the Government responsible for its apathy. He criticized the Government and the Police Department for not making any policy for resettlement of police personnel after their retirement.
He demanded that a committee be constituted at PHQ to frame policy to adjust the police retirees in public and private sector after retirement.
Referring to the ordinance issued by Central Government regarding one rank one pension for defence personnel, he demanded the State Government to bring such an ordinance in favour of State police personnel and get it passed.
The Forum also demanded the State DGP to take up the case of pay anomalies from Constables to ASIs with the Government as per SRO-14, the file of which is pending with Finance Ministry’s office.
The other demands highlighted by the Forum included providing life saving medicines to the needy retired police personnel from Police Hospital, 15% reservation for wards of police personnel in recruitment in Police department, sanctioned of marriage fund amounting to Rs 50, 000 at the time of marriage of their wards from Police Welfare Fund, sanction of Rs 50, 000 for last rites of police personnel at the time of their deaths, holding welfare melas to solve the problems of retirees and reimbursement of medicals bills of the retirees out of welfare funds.
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