Only 3 Demands Pending: Minister

SRINAGAR: “We have accepted all their demands and now only three are pending. These include removing pay anomaly, regularization of casual laborers and two year increase in the retirement age,” said  senior member of the cabinet subcommittee and Medical Education Minster Taj Mohiuddin. Taj said pending demands were under consideration and would require time. 

Taj however said that the government had never conceded to the demand of an increase in the retirement age neither was any mention of it in the agreement.

“Which agreements they are talking about we have never made a commitment regarding the increase in retirement age. We just said that we will consider it sympathetically,”  said Taj. He said that though the government believed in the reconciliatory approach, yet it would not in any case succumb to pressure.

“We can’t be cowed down by their warnings, government is after all a government, you can’t take it for a ride,” said Taj while reacting to the JCC warning of taking to confrontational route again in case there wasn’t any breakthrough in the next round of meeting.

He further said that all the three demands were time consuming and can’t be met overnight.

“We have to follow the rules and this will require time. In casual laborers case, we have to see whether there is a provision of their regularization and does the rule permit us to do so, where as in retirement age increase we have to take the unemployed youth into consideration also. So this will take time but we are after it and the matter is under sympathetic consideration” added the Minister.

He also said that the strikes being called by the JCC were illegal as per the court directions and if they (JCC) again resort to such practice that would tantamount as the contempt of court. KNS

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