(Lanka-e-News -04.Oct.2015, 8.30PM) It is a matter for deep regret that despite the president instructing to extend the special allowances paid to the executive grade officers of the government, to the officers of the three armed forces from 1 st July 2015 , still these allowances have not been paid to the officers of the three forces, Lanka e news lamented in its report of 28 th August 2015.
It had been pointed out by the additional secretary to the defense ministry and the co ordinating secretaries of the three forces that these allowances cannot be granted to the three forces because they do not come under the category of so called government servants, and in support of this argument they cited most bizarre grounds.
In any event with the end of the 100 days program , under the new government of good governance, the new defense secretary Karunaratne Hettiarachi , State defense secretary Ruwan Wijewardena , the president and the prime minister must address this issue and mete out justice. It should be pinpointed that following the decision that armed services are not of the government service , based on the circular 6/2006 there can arise serious salary disparities between the officers of the three forces and the government officers in the same grades, whereby a grave injustice can result .
Need we remind nincompoops and nitwits, if any exist that these are officers of the armed services who cannot take to the streets and stage protests unlike the other government servants ; they cannot go on picketing ; and they are the saviors of the motherland from a 30 years old cruel war ?
Is this the way you are going to treat these officers of the armed services or rather mistreat them this cruelly by denying them their special allowances simply by considering them as non government officers and dismissing this grave issue, thereby inflicting a grave injustice on them ? Is there a group that deserves these allowances more than these armed officers? Or are they to go to Geneva to seek redress ?
-Aggrieved members of the forces subjected to grave injustice-
Translated by Jeff
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by (2015-10-04 14:53:56)
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