Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Nov 16: Employees Joint Action Committee (EJAC) president Fayaz Ahmad Shabnam has reiterated his demand regarding setting up of Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) in Srinagar.
In a press statement, the EJAC president said that they have welcomed the initiative of Central Government of setting up of CAT bench in Jammu but at the same time, the Central Government should have also set up its permanent bench in Srinagar, which was mentioned in the notification issued by Centre for setting up of CAT branches in Jammu and Srinagar.
The EJAC president said that it would be a discriminatory approach with Kashmir province employees of not having any legal forum in Kashmir to pursue their service matters. He said that it would be extremely difficult for Kashmir province employees to pursue their service matters in Jammu as it will be expensive for the employees.
Pertinently, majority of the service related cases belong to low rung employees who on a meager salary hardly make their two ends meet. Shabnam also highlighted that Jammu -Srinagar highway is usually closed for most of the time due to landslides or other issues and the airplane tickets are skyrocketing and thus in such a scenario, it will be very cumbersome for the employees to reach the Tribunal on a given date or time.
The EJAC president urged the J&K UT Administration and the Chief Justice of J&K High Court to take up the matter with concerned so that lakhs of employees in Kashmir would get justice and with most deserving platform to pursue their legal matters.
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