The Jammu & Kashmir Employees Federation, an organisation representing National Pension System (NPS) employees from the union territory, has demanded a fitment factor of 3.05 and a minimum salary of Rs 55,000 for all central government employees in its meeting with 8 th Pay Commission (8 th CPC) officials in Srinagar on Wednesday.
In its memorandum submitted to the 8 th Pay Commission chairperson, Ranjana Prakash Desai, on Wednesday, Rafeeq Malik, president, Jammu & Kashmir Employees’ Federation, has recommended higher annual increment, merging dearness allowance (DA) with basic pay, higher house rent allowance (HRA) rates, replacing NPS with Old Pension Scheme (OPS), increasing the retirement age of school teachers to 65 years, draw a pay parity with Delhi employees, among other things.
