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NAGROTA: President of the National Mazdoor Conference (NMC) Subash Shastri appealed to the Prime Minister to immediately convene a conclave of all Chief Ministers and State Food Ministers in the capital to deliberate upon the issue of rising prices and supply distribution chain.
Addressing a meeting of NMC activists at village Bomyal in Nagrota Block, Shastri stressed upon the fact that inflation of essential commodities has rendered the life of common man vulnerable particularly employees, pensioners, daily rated workers adding that these classes are also finding difficult to make both ends meet.
“It is strange that while legislatures ,parliamentarians of the country are themselves on board and in a hurry to raise their salaries, the same hike has been denied to middle class which is finding it extremely difficult to manage the house hold and children’s education as their incomes are stagnant over the long period of time” Shastri added.
Shastri further said that on one hand both Central/State Governments claim that it has infinite stocks of food grains and pulses in their stores, but the very structure of public distribution system being faulty ,it has been seen that the food of the country is deliberately made to rot.
“Top leaderships of the NDA election campaigning had kindled a hope that things would change for the better, but they too seems to have been faulted by the system. However nothing is lost. Nation still has hopes from Prime Minister Narendra Modi to set the things right,” Shastri added.
A resolution was also passed wherein it was enjoined upon the central Government to immediately implement the Seventh Pay Commission for the employees to draw salaries as per revised pay structure. Release of pending wages of daily rated workers Irrigation and Flood Control Deptt., release of another installment of D.A. due from 1st July 2016 in favour of Centre and State Govt. employees and pensioner’s besides enhancing the monthly salary of daily rated workers to Rs. 10,000 per month were other demands highlighted in the meeting.
