Government employees strike work in Jammu and Kashmir

September 29th, 2009 SRINAGAR - Thousands of Jammu and Kashmir State Road Transport Corporation (SRTC) employees on Tuesday afternoon took to streets in Srinagar and staged an anti-Government demonstrations demanding immediate disbursal of their long pending their salaries. The employees along with their families had assembled at Jehangir chowk in Srinagar to proceed towards the civil secretariat, but were stopped by the police, officials said.

September 25th, 2009 NEW DELHI - In view of the special status of State of Jammu and Kashmir, the Central Government has decided to establish, as a special dispensation, two appropriate Central Universities in the State - one in Jammu region and another in the Kashmir Valley. It is expected that this will meet the regional aspirations in the State.

August 22nd, 2009 SRINAGAR - Normal life across the Kashmir Valley was affected on the second day of a general strike on Saturday. Separatist organizations called for the strike to protest against Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's statement on Kashmir.

June 10th, 2009 JAMMU - Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad arrived here Wednesday to a rousing reception during his first visit to his home state Jammu and Kashmir after his induction in the central government. The former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister was received by over 5,000 supporters who had come here from various parts of Jammu district.

April 2nd, 2009 JAMMU - The Jammu and Kashmir government will move April 24 from this winter capital to the state's summer capital Srinagar, where the offices will open May 4. The practice of shifting the Jammu and Kashmir capital, called 'darbar move', continues since the Dogra rule started it some 135 years ago.

March 28th, 2009 JAMMU - Army troops Saturday recovered a powerful improvised explosive device (IED) in a forest area of Jammu and Kashmir, an official said. The three-kg bomb was recovered in jungles of Thanna Mandi in Rajouri district, about 200 km northwest of Jammu, said a defence spokesman.

February 17th, 2009 SRINAGAR/JAMMU - The Jammu and Kashmir government Wednesday accepted employees' demand for the implementation of the Sixth Pay Commission recommendations, ending a three-day strike in offices. The decision follows talks between a five-member team of cabinet ministers led by Finance Minister Abdul Rahim Rather and 30 members of the Joint Coordination Committee of employees in Jammu.

February 17th, 2009 SRINAGAR/JAMMU - The Jammu and Kashmir government Wednesday gave in to the striking employees' demand for higher salaries and said it will implement the Sixth Pay Commission recommendations. The decision follows talks in Jammu between a five-member team of cabinet members led by Finance Minister Abdul Rahim Rather and 30 representatives of the Joint Coordination Committee of employees.

February 16th, 2009 JAMMU - A five-member cabinet ministers' team led by Finance Minister Abdul Rahim Rather will talk to protesting employees of Jammu and Kashmir, who are on a three-day strike demanding implementation of the Sixth Pay Commission recommendations, an official spokesman said Tuesday. The strike continued on the second day Tuesday as around 400,000 employees stayed off work, asking for hike in salaries, enhancement of the retirement age from 58 to 60 years and regularisation of services of thousands of temporary employees.

February 15th, 2009 SRINAGAR - Government employees in Jammu and Kashmir who went on a three-day strike beginning Monday have threatened to disrupt essential services if their demand for implementation of the Sixth Pay Commission recommendations was not met immediately. Work remained paralysed in all state government offices across the state on the first day of the strike.

February 15th, 2009 JAMMU - More than 450,000 government employees across Jammu and Kashmir Monday began a three-day strike demanding the implementation of the Sixth Pay Commission recommendations in the state. Work in the civil secretariat, educational institutions and medical services have came to a complete halt.

February 13th, 2009 JAMMU - Jammu and Kashmir's main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Saturday asked the Omar Abdullah government to implement the recommendations of the Sixth Pay Commission in the state without further delay. 'The government must fulfil the commitment made during the elections on the implementation of the recommendations of the Sixth Pay Commission,' a PDP spokesperson said here.

February 9th, 2009 JAMMU - Work in the government offices of Jammu and Kashmir came to a halt Tuesday after more than 450,000 employees went on a strike demanding implementation of the sixth pay commission recommendations. Even essential services like medical, health care, water supplies and power were affected by the strike.

January 27th, 2009 SRINAGAR - Nearly 400,000 employees of the Jammu and Kashmir government Wednesday observed a day-long strike demanding extension of the Sixth Pay Commission recommendations in the state. Work in various state government offices remained paralysed due to the strike call by the employees' joint co-ordination committee.

January 18th, 2009 JAMMU - Government employees in Jammu and Kashmir will strike work Jan 28 to press for the implementation of the Sixth Pay Commission recommendations in the state this month. About 400,000 government staff, banded under the Employees Joint Action Committee (EJAC), will also launch an agitation if the announcement implementing the pay panel recommendations was not made by the month-end, said EJAC leader Ram Lal Sharma.