Will attend the meeting with appositive mindset: EJAC (Q)
Srinagar: The state government has invited Joint Coordination Committee of the employees unions for deliberations on their pending demands which include enhancement in retirement age from 58 to 60 years.
Confirming to KNS, Abdul Qayoom Wani, President Employees joint Action Committee (Q) and senior JCC leader said: “Yes we have been invited for a meeting on Tuesday and we will attend it with a positive mindset.”
Sources in the government told KNS that the meeting will be held in Banquet Hall Srinagar at 2 pm. The meeting will be attended by almost the entire leadership of JCC. Besides the enhancement in retirement age, the main pending demands which will come to fore for discussions include inclusion of five years of services o Rehbra-e-Taleem (ReT), pay anomaly, release of 6th pay commission arrears in favor of municipal corporation employees and local bodies, confirmation of daily wagers, casual laborers and inclusion of services rendered by adhoc employees.
“We do not want any confrontation with the government but we hope that the government addresses our long pending demands,” Wani stressed. As reported by KNS earlier, the government has decided tocall a meeting of Cabinet Sub-Committee (CSC) headed by finance minister Abdul Rahim Rather on enhancement of retirement age of government employees from 58 to 60 years very soon.
Talking to KNS, Ali Mohammad Sagar, minister for rural development had confirmed that the government is seriously considering the enhancement of retirement age of government employees. He had told KNS that National Conference government never wanted a confrontationist approach to deal with the demands put forth by the government employees.
In February this year, the government had asked the Chief Secretary to talk to the employees’ leadership and issue the necessary directions to chalk out a proposal on the enhancement of retirement age taking all the prerequisites into consideration.