In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kash-mir, the employees of the Department of In-formation and Public Relation (DIPR) have boycotted their work and staged a protest against arbitrary orders issued by Director In-formation, Rahul Pandey.
The employees said the Director has issued orders to stop salaries of 52 employees of Kashmir valley and 17 from Jammu region without any justified reason.
The employees locked all units, including PR and Advertisement sections, Cultural Unit, Field Publicity and establishment section. Raising “We want Justice” slogans, the em-ployees demanded immediate revocation of the order.
The employees protesting at Rambagh office in Srinagar said that one month salary of 17 employees from Jammu Division and 52 from Kashmir Division has been withheld for a month for reasons better known to the higher-ups.
They said that they have been serving the department round the clock, but are now facing mental harassment.
They, however, said that they are not in the know-how as to why their salary has been withheld.The employees said they will continue to protest till their salary is not released.
They said they have halted the work of the Informa-tion division Kashmir until the order is re-voked and their salaries are released.The employees have appealed to the au-thorities to look into the matter so that their withheld salary is released at the earliest.—KMS
