Voluntary retired SRTC employees hold dharna

All Jammu and Kashmir SRTC Voluntary Retired Employees Association (VREA) held a protest demonstration under the chairmanship of Dev Raj Bali and Surinder Singh in front of Managing Director, SRTC for non-release of CP Fund Interest which amounts to Rs 23,28,494.

After protesting the members of VREA marched towards the office of Additional Commissioner CP Fund, Rail Head complex and held dharna there for couple of hours.

Addressing the gathering, Dev Raj Bali said that non-release of CP fund interest has created hardships for VRS employees who are suffering for the last one year. He said this shows that these officials are bent upon not to solve the problem. He said Additional Commissioner CP Fund is again and again reminding the management of SRTC but the management is not showing any interest and turning deaf ear towards the demands of VRS employees.

He further said that Additional Commissioner CP Fund has the power to recover the same from the SRTC management but he is not using its powers and it seems that these two are in connivance with each other and for this connivance VRS employees have been made to suffer.

VREA warned the concerned authorities to redress the issue at the earliest otherwise they will be forced to intensify agitation.

Others who spoke during the dharna were Balwinder Singh, BV Sharma, Prem Nath, Ahsan Elahi, Surjit Singh and many others.