Nurpur: Pensioners seek panel to look into demands

Nurpur, July 10

Members of the Himachal Pradesh Government Pensioners’ Association during their monthly meeting here yesterday expressed anguish over state government’s failure for not constituting a joint consultative committee (JCC) to look into their demands.

Sardari Lal Gupta, president of the association, said the government wasn’t heeding to their demands. The pensioner’s were anguished as the government was evading the issue of constitution of the JCC, he added.

Gupta said the government employees who had retired after January 2016 were yet to get financial benefits of the sixth pay commission. He urged the Chief Minister to fulfil their long-standing demands to merge their pension increments granted after attaining the age of 65, 70 and 75 years with their pay scale on the pattern of Punjab government, enhance monthly medical allowance from Rs 400 to Rs 2000 and LTC after two years’ gap.

The association also appealed to the pensioners to submit their annual live certificates to the treasury offices by July 31 so that their pensions could be disbursed uninterrupted.