Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, July 15: All J&K SRTC Volunteer Retired Employees Association today staged a protest demonstration here in front of Press Club, against State SRTC for not clearing their pending dues.
While addressing the union president, Dev Raj Bali, strongly criticized the Government and SRTC for not hearing to their grievances and that they were feeling cheated.
“We took VRS/GHS on the assurances that our dues will be released within 60 days but it is sorry to state that we are struggling for the same for last so many years”, they said, adding we have been cheated by the Government by giving us VRS/GHS on false promises.
They said that their case for pending dues like COLA arrears, leave salary, gratuity, ex-gratia grant amounting to Rs 167649497/- was lying for years in the Finance Department but despite having the funds the department is not releasing the same due to the reasons best known to them.
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