Congress demands release of pay for PM's package staff in Valley

JAMMU: Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee (JKPCC) today demanded immediate release of salaries of the employees recruited under the Prime Minister's employment package in the Valley and sought Governor N N Vohra's intervention into the matter.

"We demand the release of salaries of PM package employees in Kashmir valley immediately," Pradesh Congress Committee Migrant Cell (JKPCMC) Convener Ghulam Qadir Bhat told reporters here.

Bhat claimed that the PM package employees have not been getting salaries for the last three months and are facing hardships as the government has failed to provide proper accommodation to them.

Over 2000 Migrant youths were recruited under the PM's employment package in the Valley and have been working there in different departments for past 4 to 5 years.

Bhat asked, when other employees draw salaries at the end of every month then why remunerations for PM package employees are being delayed.

Some employees have been posted in remote and far off areas while couples working in separate districts have not been posted in the same district as was earlier assured by the government, he alleged.

J&K Congress has appealled to Governor N N Vohra to look into the problems of PM package employees and settle it at the earliest, he said.