Friday, September 21, 2012

Retired PSU employees demand release of arrears

Employees of All Jammu and Kashmir Public Sector Volunteer Retirement Scheme (VRS), along with Golden Handshake Scheme (GHS) employees on Wednesday protested against the ‘government’s failure’ to release arrears, which according to these associations is pending since 2006.

 The associations demands the immediate release of 126 pending slab arrears. President JKPS (VRS) and GHS Mohammad Yasin Bhat said that more than thousand workers who were relieved from their jobs by opting for VRS or GHS in various PSU units are still waiting for this arrear  money,

“We have tried everything to get it realesed, but the government is non serious and had only doubled the hardship of these people.

According to the association, in 2006 government offered them two schemes Volunteer Retirement and Forced retirement. “We were been assured by our concerned departments that if we opt for volunteer retirement scheme  and golden handshake scheme we will be given all incentives but later they backtracked our their promises,” said the president.

Raising slogans against the state government for subrogating the employs on the name of incentives. “Government is saying that the funds will be given through our concerned PSU’s they are not in a condition to redress our issues,” Ali Mohammad one of the employees said.

“On an average each employ will get Rs 5 lakh but the department is not in a position to pay this much amount,” said Bhat.

“This is high time for a government to take an instant positive action in this regard,” He added.

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