Jammu & Kashmir
No salary for protesting Kashmiri Pandit employees, says JK Admin
Jammu: The Jammu and Kashmir administration has decided to not release the salaries of those Kashmiri Pundit employees who are on protest for the last many months.
Hundreds of Kashmiri migrant Prime Minister Package employees and reserved category employees were on protest in Jammu demanding relocation to safer environs of Jammu from Kashmir.
In May last year, scores of Prime Minister package Kashmiri migrant Pandit employees and Jammu-based reserved category employees shifted to Jammu following the killings of their colleagues, Rahul Bhat and Rajini Bala.
Pertinently, on February 12, the Lieutenant Governor’s secretariat asked the Chief Secretary’s office to direct all the heads of departments to release the salaries of the PM package employees and other minority employees, who have resumed their duties in the Kashmir division.
In a communique to the special secretary to the chief secretary, the Raj Bhavan asked him to direct all the concerned HODs to release the salary of PM package/other minority employees, who have resumed their duties in Kashmir, for the intervening period, without any gap, as a special measure by adjusting it, in view of forthcoming festival of Maha Shivratri festival.
