DOGRA HERALD BUREAU
JAMMU:
As per the call of All India Insurance Employees’ Association, LIC employees of Jammu& Kashmir held massive demonstrations outside their offices in support of the Samyukt Kisan Morcha and the Joint Platform of central Trade Unions’ call for countrywide strike and Grameen Bharat Bandh on 16 February 2024against the anti-worker, anti-people policies of the central government. Speaking on the occasion at D.O.Cell Jammu, Com. Pawan Gupta,Divisional Secretary Northern Zone Insurance Employees’ Association Srinagar Division said that LIC employees fully support the demands of the workers, peasants and people of India at largewhich included No privatisation of PSUs including insurance and banks, minimum wage of Rs.26,000/- per month for workers, abolition of contractualization of jobs, restoration of Old Pension Scheme (OPS) and scrapping of the NPS, repeal of the four labour codes, repeal of the draconian amendments made to the IPC/ CrPC etc. He also raised demands of LIC employees pending since long. The wage revision has been due in LIC since 1ST August 2022 and no positive outcome is there till now in spite of thebrilliant performanceof LIC with an increase of 49 per cent in its net profit reaching Rs.9,444 crore for the third quarter ending December 2023, LIC’s total income also saw a substantial increase to Rs.2,12,447 crore in the latest quarter and the assets under management (AUM) of the LIC have reached an astronomically huge figure of Rs.49.66 lakh crore. He also stressed the demand for enhancement of the management’s contribution to the NPS from the present 10 per cent to 14 per cent without prejudice to our demand of abolition of NPS and its replacement with the OPS. Immediate Recruitment in LIC especially in Class 3&4 is need of the hour. Looking at the age profile of LIC, it clear that the institution is aging and there is an urgent need for infusion of young blood. The problem is particularly acute in class IV cadres.
. Others who spoke-Rajesh Gupta and Raj Kumar Sharma-Joint secretaries, COM.Rajesh Kumar-Treasurer, Com.Raj Kumar-Office Secretary, Com. Priya Sharma, Shunali Gupta,Neeraj Bhagat-Women sub-committee, Dharminder Kumar,Nanak Chand ,Kishore Lal and others.The programme at Srinagar was led by Com. Aadil ,Amarjeet Singh, Ajaz Ah Dar.Javed Bukhari The programme was organised at Jammu-2 by R.P.Singh, Kathua by Vijay Verma, Samba by Surat Singh,R.s.Pura by Jagdish, Udhampur by Sham Singh and Moti Ram, Rajouri by Vikas and Vinod Sharma, Doda by Ram Raj, Poonch by Raj Kumar.
