Though grievances over unprecedented delays in the release of the General Provident Fund (GP Fund) payments of the employees of the Jammu & Kashmir Government are rising with every passing day since March this year but unfortunately settlement of such grievances don’t head to any dead end due to which most of the employees of the Jammu & Kashmir Government find themselves at the receiving end. While the irrefutable fact is that Government Employees apply for release of General Provident Fund (GP Fund) dues only under pressing situations developing either due to marriages of their children or admissions of their wards in prestigious private missionary schools or professional colleges, the delay in their General Provident Fund payments is forcing them to inevitably take loans in lacs from banks, defer indefinitely the marriages of their children and miss the golden opportunities of admissions of their children in professional colleges within and outside Jammu & Kashmir. While the irrefutable fact is that the General Provident Fund (GP Fund) is the amount deducted from the hard earned salaries of it’s pre-2010 employees by Jammu & Kashmir Government which if deposited in Banks would be disbursed to them with interests in a short span of few days but Government by not disbursing this hard earned money deducted from the salaries to their employees for months together is virtually putting them under tremendous psychological, mental and physical stress.
“Employees running from pillar to post for the disbursement of their own GP Fund investments deserve early settlement of their GP fund claims the time when Government itself has established a full fledged Grievance redressal department obviously for addressing the genuine pressing grievances of people including government employees on priority. By all standards of understanabilities the people would show faith in the grievance redressal of the Government only if the Government does not leave grievances of it’s own employees unresolved for months together”.
Though all the pre-2010 Government employees have invested almost half of their salaries in their General Provident Fund (GP Fund) accounts with the hope that the amounts likely to be paid back to them on requisitions with the interests more than what banks pay on fixed deposits could be used for marriages and career development of their children but the Government by going on denial and deferment modes is contributing to their difficulties instead of coming to their rescue in pressing circumstances. Irrefutable fact is that the Government employees invest major part their hard earned salaries for using them to fulfil the demands of their children on marriages and career development but not for going through shocks and sufferings at the age when they can’t afford to take loans from banks on higher interest rates. Employees running from pillar to post for the disbursement of their own GP Fund investments deserve early settlement of their GP fund claims the time when Government itself has established a full fledged Grievance redressal department obviously for addressing the genuine pressing grievances of people including government employees on priority. By all standards of understanabilities the people would show faith in the grievance redressal of the Government only if the Government does not leave grievances of it’s own employees unresolved for months together.
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