NMC for release of DA & DR to employees at par with center employee
29/03/2025
Jammu, March 29 (KIP)-Stressing on the need for immediate release of pending instalment of 2 percent DA due since January, president of the National Mazdoor Conference (NMC), Subhash Shastri today appealed to Chief Minister Omar Abdullah to announce the same to employees and pensioners at the earliest as Union cabinet approved the released of DA to its employees and Dearness relief (DR) to pensioners w.e.f 1, January 2025 representing an increase of 2 percent over the existing rate 53 percent of basic pay/pension to compensate against price rise.
Addressing a meeting of NMC workers here, Shastri stated that in view of the inbuilt provisions in the annual budget, there should not be any hitch for the UT Government. An early decision in this regard would be genuine measure to provide some relief to the employees and pensioners, he added. Shastri said that DA should be exempted from the ambit of Income Tax as it is linked with price index.
Recalling recommendations of the Central 7th Pay Commission, Shastri said it also had recommendations that as soon as DA crosses more than 50 percent, the Centre is under an obligation to merge 50 percent DA into basic pay or pension.
“As the DA has already touched 55 percent now, we request for early merger of 50 percent DA into basic pay/pension with retrospective effect,” he added.
Shastri urged upon PM Modi to appoint chairman and other members of the 8th Pay Commission and take a decision in this regard at the earliest and start discussion with representatives of both Central and State Government employees and pensioners as appointment of 8th Pay Commission will end confusion and uncertainty among employees and pensioners on this issue once for all. He also demanded separate wage head for regularly disbursement of monthly salary to daily rated workers till their regularization, enhancement of their wages to Rs. 600 per day, regularization of their services, clearance of all pending GP fund cases and gratuity, setting up of Labour Welfare Board, implementation of all Central Laws in J&K besides granting Medical Allowance of Rs. 1000 per month to pensioners at par with UT Ladakh Administration from 01-04-2020.
Rajan Babu Khajuria, B.S Jamwal, Surinder Kumar, Ramesh Sharma, Ram Singh, Raman Sharma, Ex Sarpanch Sukhdev Singh, Darshan Baba, Chaman Lal, Vinod kumar, Anil Gupta, Birbal Sharma, Rajinesh Kapoor, Darshan Abrol and others were also present.