Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 21: National Mazdoor Conference (NMC) president Subash Shastri has urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to direct the Chairman of the Seventh Pay Commission to start negotiations with representatives of employees without any further delay, so that report could be submitted to the Centre within stipulated period. In a memorandum sent to Narendra Modi, Shastri said as there is only 12 months time to complete the report, the commission should visit all the States in the country to obtain views of federations of the State Governments employees and pensioners so that they may also get benefited out of it. Shastri also urged him to sanction 20% interim relief and merger of 50% DA in basic pay in favour of employees and pensioners as recommended by the earlier Pay Commissions. He also sought total exemption of Dearness Allowance (DA) from the ambit of Income Tax as DA is directly related with the price index. He said the Income Tax is also imposed on the salaries class because of DA. He called upon the NDA Government at Centre to frame a National policy for regularization of daily rated workers/ casual/ contractual and Ad-hoc workers working in Central Government as well as State Governments across the country, beside raising of minimum wages at the national level to Rs 10, 000 per month.
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