Hoshiarpur- Monthly meeting of Punjab Roadways Retired Emp: Welfare Association (Regd:) Hoshiarpur was organised at Bus Stand Hoshiarpur under the chairmanship of President Mr. Anil Kumar former General Manager. At the beginning of the meeting, President Mr. Anil Kumar wished the colleagues a Happy New Year 2025 and said that this New Year 2025 should be full of happiness for all. Later, the new member of this association, Mr. Ranjit Singh former driver was honoured with a memento.
This association honoured its colleagues above 70 years of age, Mr. Harbhajan Singh Bariyan NRI, Mangal Singh Bilaspuri NRI, Mukhtiar Singh, Gyan Singh Bhalethu General Secretary and Surjit Singh Tambar (Saini) by giving Loi and memento and the entire organisation prayed to God to keep all the members healthy and happy. After this, President Anil Kumar, Rajinder Singh Azad, Harjinder Singh Gill Senior Vice President, Gyan Singh Bhalethu General Secretary, Avtar Singh Sherpuri and Bhagwan Das in their joint statement condemned the Punjab government and said that this government is completing five years with jokes and advertisements while the pensioners/employees have died waiting for their 6th Pay Commission arrears and DA installments.
The central government has increased DA to 56 percent. The Punjab government is doing a favor to the pensioners/employees of Punjab by giving 4 percent DA in three years as if it is giving us charity. It is hiding its complaints by making excuses of meetings but has increased its salary by more than three and a half lakh rupees and other allowances more than necessary. Therefore, all the pensioners' organizations are ready to teach a lesson in the elections of Delhi and Punjab. This is an educated class, it will definitely teach a lesson.
The above speakers warned the government and said that according to the report given by the 6th Pay Commission, the installments of DA and arrears should be paid as soon as possible. On one hand they are saying that the treasury is full, on the other hand the women of Punjab are regretting voting for this broom party in the greed of thousands of rupees and are giving bad reviews. The speakers demanded that contract recruitment should be stopped and regular recruitment should be done, new buses should be made available by keeping a budget, the policies of privatization of public sector institutions should be canceled and the legitimate demands of the farmers should be accepted and the new National Mandi Policy should be canceled.
All the comrades also raised slogans condemning the policies of the government. The meeting was attended by all Shri Kamaljit Minhas Cashier, Harbhajan Singh Dohre, Avtar Singh Sherpuri, Karnail Singh Ajram, Manmohan Singh Walia, Harmesh Lal, Paramjit Singh, Bal Krishna Inspector, Ranjit Singh, Ramesh Lal Bhatia, Bhagwan Das, Mahinder Kumar, Gyan Singh, Gurnam Singh, Baljit Singh, Mangal Singh NRI, Harbhajan Singh Barian NRI, Harbhajan Singh Khudda Chief Inspector, HS Gill and Jagdish Singh Inspector.