Employees hail 7th pay panel’s proposals

Government staff in Kashmir have welcomed the Seventh Pay Commission’s recommendations of an overall increase of 23 per cent in the salaries of Central and state government employees. They said it would improve the overall economic condition of people. Abdul Qayoom Wani, Chairman of the Employees’ Joint Action Committee (EJAC), while welcoming the panel’s recommendations, said the hike was the right of employees for which they had been waiting for the last 10 years. “This is a welcome step and it is the right of employees who have been waiting…

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