Employees Gratuity Hike: Gujarat’s Bhupendra Patel government has given a big gift to the state employees just before the new year. CM Bhupendra Patel has given his approval to the proposal related to increase in the limit of death gratuity. This proposal of the Finance Department was pending with the CM. The direct benefit of this increase will be to the family members of the retired government employee.
According to the information, on the basis of the central policy, the state government has decided to increase it by 25 percent to Rs 25 lakh directly. At present, this limit is up to Rs 20 lakh.
It is mentioned in the proposal of the state government that its benefit will be given to those government employees who have retired after January 1 in the current year (2024), that is, they have retired this year. It has been estimated that this decision of the state government will put an annual financial burden of Rs 53.15 crore on the government treasury.
