Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Oct 8: Pensioners & Senior Citizens Welfare Society UT of J&K president, Mir Gh Rasool Botwani while addressing a meeting here, today demanded the release of 3% DA due from July 2025 to its employees and pensioners well before Diwali festival.
He also demanded Increase of Medical Allowance from Rs 300 to Rs 1000 w.e.f 01.04. 2020 at par with Central Government, Ladakh employees, regularization of daily wagers, contractual employees, Anganwadi workers SPOs, reducing commutation period from 15 years to 10 years, enhancement of monthly pension from the age of 65 years instead of 80 years, release of 18 months DA pending with the Government of Covid period? The meeting also demanded that formal orders for 8th Pay Commission which is effective from January 1 next year be ordered in favour of employees and pensioners for which they are waiting.
The meeting said that Central Government as well as Ladakh employees and pensioners are getting monthly Medical Allowance of Rs 1000 since April 2020 but the employees and pensioners of J&K have been deprived of it which is an injustice.
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