Srinagar, Nov 2: Over 3,000 employees in the Directorate of Family Welfare, MCH, and Immunisation are once again facing severe financial uncertainty as their salaries have gone unpaid for four months. Despite repeated assurances of a “permanent solution” by J&K administration, these employees continue to be forced to “beg” for salary disbursement, causing hardships for their families. A delegation of the H&FW, MCH and Immunisation department told Greater Kashmir that they have moved from the office of one official to another to seek the release of their salaries.
However, it has not yielded anything and there is no immediate respite in their sight. A vast majority of the employees of this department are women working in difficult, rural, and often underserved areas. The issue of delayed salaries for this staff has been a recurring problem.
President Family Welfare Employees Association, Neelofer Akhter told Greater Kashmir it was difficult for the employees to come to terms with the fact that they remain unpaid despite allocation of funds and formalization of the heads under which salaries would be drawn. “Why this step motherly treatment to us, when we are at the forefront for implementing all the programs and welfare schemes under the health department and also at the beck and call for work related to other departments,” she said. Earlier this year, the J&K Finance Department issued an order to allocate funds under Family Welfare.
The order stipulated advance re.
