NMC apples CM to enhance the medical allowance from Rs. 300 to Rs. 1000 per month
21/01/2025
Jammu, January 21 (KIP)-President of the National Mazdoor Conference (NMC) Subash Shastri today appealed to the Chief Minister to enhance the medical allowance from Rs. 300 to Rs. 1000 per month as per the norm of UT administrations, now UT, Ladakh has already provided Rs. 1000/- per month as a medical allowance to its pensioner’s w.e.f 01.04.2020.
Addressing a party workers meet Shastri said, "Medical allowance in JKUT is Rs. 300 per month for the last two decade as the prices of medicines and other medical related expenditure has increased to a large extent so medical allowance should also be increased at par with central Govt."
He hoped that a decision in this regard should also be taken by JKUT Administration as it is a routine financial matter so that pensioners would get sigh of relief from rising prices of medicines.
Commenting on the Cabinet decision in releasing 3% D.A instalment, Shastri described it a pro-employees/pensioners friendly decision.
Stressing on the need in releasing of pending DA / DR of 18 months from the month of January 2020 to ending June 2021 Shastri also appealed to the Central Government to release the outstanding 3 DA instalments arrears blocked while releasing the same to its employees and pensioners 3 years ago. He said that since the price index and inflation on rise day today which has made salaried class and pensioners to face hardship to manage their livelihood.
Shastri pointed out that it is the fitness of things that financial assistance so accrued by way of rising Dearness Allowance (DA) is released without any further delay. Shastri further hoped that the central Govt. will consider the burning demand of both Central/States/UTs employees and pensioners in releasing the 3 DA instalments blocked arrears in favour of these employees and pensioners at the earliest. Release of 4% DA due from January 01, 2025 beside merging of 50% DA with pension and pay. Shastri further demanded regularization of the daily rated workers under SRO-64
Among other who were also present in the meeting included Rajan Babu Khajuria, B.S Jamwal, Surinder Kumar, Ram Singh, Anil Gupta, Ramesh Sharma, Chaman Lal, Birbal, Raman Sharma, Vinod Kumar, Sukhdev Singh, Subash Sharma and Ram Lal Sharma