Dear Editor,
Government employees and pensioners appealed to the UT administration to release their salary arrears pending for months together before March 31, 2024.
Government employees and pensioners sought release the pending salary arrears before March 31.
The Government should release salary arrears at the earliest so that the employees and pensioners would heave a sigh of relief from the rising prices of essential commodities.
Scores of employees of the Animal Husbandry Department, who come under New Pension Scheme (NPS), are also without salary for last three to nine months.
While the employees recruited under Old Pension Scheme are receiving their regular salaries, the NPS employees are suffering due to non-availability/delay of matching Government share under salary budget.
All the NPS employees in all the districts including doctors and their families are suffering due to non-payment of their salaries.
In some districts the employees are without salary for three to four months while in some for the last five to nine months.
The Association has sought intervention of the Lt Governor Manoj Sinha and the Chief Secretary Atal Dulloo to intervene into the matter as their dependents are facing lot of hardships.
The Association has decided to go on strike if their wages are not paid by the end of this month.
