Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, July 28: Alleging harassment from the Board Committee of JKRTC, All J&K RTC Voluntarily Retired Employees Association (J&K), reiterated its demand of releasing pending COLA, DA and other arrears of the workers.
Talking to media persons at Press Club of Jammu today, these aggrieved VRS given employees of JKRTC disclosed that Government constituted Board Committee of JKRTC to resolve pending issues of VRS given J&K Road Transport employees. They condemned the attitude of the committee members and alleged that instead of resolving issue of employees, they started harassing them.
Dev Raj Bali, president of the Association alleged that Committee members have been misusing their powers and have projected wrong picture before the UT Administration. They seems to be in no mood to resolve the issue. They are just creating more confusion with regard to the arrears of the VRS given employees of the JKRTC.
Bali condemned the negative attitude of the committee and urged the Lt Governor Manoj Sinha to issue necessary directions to the members to hold Board meeting and resolve the pending issues of VRS accorded employees with regard to COLA arrears from June 1999 to Dec 31, 2005; 6th Pay Commission arrears from Ist Jan 2006 to March 2012 and release of DA arrears from April 2012 to March 2021.
Besides Bali, Sat Bhushan, Surinder Singh, Ram Pal and R P Singh were also present on the occasion.
