Jammu, Dec. 5 -- Early Times Report
Village Defence Committees (VDCs), which serve as 'security arch' to defend remote and hilly villages against terror attacks in Jammu and Kashmir, on Thursday held a protest here demanding the release of pending salaries.
Members of the VCDs alleged that they have not been paid salaries for the past over eight months.
The members, who had come from different parts of Doda, Kishtwar, Ramban, Reasi, Poonch and Rajouri districts, took out a rally here to protest against the pending salaries.
They were raising slogans and calling for the intervention of Lieutenant Governor GC Murmu and advisor Farooq Khan into the issue.
"VDCs are not getting salaries for the past several months. It has forced us to come...