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Plea for special pay benefits

KOCHI: The Lakshadweep Special Pay Opted Employees Association has urged the island administration to reinstate the pending special pay benefits immediately.

R. Sadasivan Nair, general secretary, said here on Monday that the authorities had refused to release the benefits since August 1, 1997. The administration had curtailed the benefits stating that it would help in equalising the pay scale for the locals and those coming from outside the island.

But the Supreme Court had made it clear that the locals could not demand the benefits given to those coming from outside through a verdict given on September 1994, he claimed.

He demanded that the benefits pending for the last several years should be issued before December 31.

Mr. Sadasivan Nair also called for a judicial inquiry against Rajeev Talwar, the then administrator of Lakshadweep, for “denying the benefits” to the employees.

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