Now, state finance minister Haseeb Drabu has said employees will get the benefits with retrospective effect from January 1, 2016. The minister said the Mehbooba Mufti-led government is also working on a plan to pay the arrears to employees and pensioners.
Here is all you need to know about Jammu and Kashmir's plan to implement 7th Pay Commission:
- The Jammu and Kashmir government announced a 23.5 per cent hike in salary and post-retirement payouts on January 11. The announcement was made by the finance minister while presenting the budget.
- The maximum salary, as per the pay panel recommendations, is fixed at Rs 2.5 lakh for the Cabinet Secretary, which is more than double the previous pay of Rs 90,000 a month for the country's top bureaucrat. For other officers in the top scale-- secretary or equivalent--the monthly salary is now around Rs 2.25 lakh.
- The state's finance minister on Wednesday told the Legislative Council that the government will pay the revised salary with retrospective effect from January 1, 2016.
- The state secretaries, the minister said, will work on the modalities on paying the arrears to government employees and pensioners.
- Earlier, employees, pensioners and casual labourers employed with the state government had staged a protest in Srinagar demanding implementation of the Seventh Pay Commission.
- State minister Haseeb Drabu, while addressing the Legislative Council, said the government decided to implement the pay commission's recommendations because it felt employees' had the right to better pay.
- The Central government announced the pay hike for its employees in June last year and a majority of the states have also implemented the recommendation of the commission fixing the minimum monthly salary for an employee at Rs 18,000 from the earlier Rs 7,000.Source : http://indiatoday.intoday.in
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