Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Aug 24: The voluntarily retired workers of J&K Road Transport Corporation (JKRTC) held protest demonstration against the management of the Corporation and J&K UT Government at Exhibition Ground, near Press Club here today.
The VRS accorded workers of the J&K Transport Corporation led by Dev Raj Bali, president All J&K RTC Voluntarily Retired Employees Association, assembled at Exhibition Ground here in the morning and started protest demonstration. They were shouting slogans in support of their demands.
Bali while speaking on the occasion strongly criticized the RTC authorities for not paying arrears of the VRS given RTC employees since long. He alleged that nearly 700 VRS given workers of the Corporation are feeling cheated as they have been deprived of their arrears by the management of the Corporation.
He alleged that merely 50% arrears have been given to the workers while arrears of the 6th Pay Commission and COLA installments have been denied by the RTC management. He demanded 6th Pay Commission arrears from January Ist, 2006 and COLA arrears since 1999 besides pension benefits and 8.33 % bonus on the basic pay.
They urged upon the Lt Governor Manoj Sinha of J&K UT to intervene and release pending arrears of the Transport workers.
Surinder Singh, Shiv Kumar, Surinder Kumar, Dhian Singh, Surjit Singh. D N Sharma and others also spoke on the occasion.
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