There is good news for the government employees-pensioners of Himachal Pradesh. In the cabinet meeting chaired by CM Jai Ram Thakur on Monday, it has been decided to give the first installment of arrears of the revised pay scale in September. CM Jai Ram Thakur has announced this on 15th August.
Huh. For this, the government has made an arrangement of Rs 1,000 crore. According to media reports, under the revised pay scale, the Himachal Pradesh government can give the first installment of arrears of Rs 50 to 75 thousand to the third and fourth class personnel and 30 to 50 thousand rupees in the first installment to the first and second class officers.
The state government is preparing to give the first installment of arrears to the employees in the second week of September. There is a possibility that a decision can be taken on giving the second installment only next month and an announcement can also be made on increasing the dearness allowance by 3 percent. Here, depending on the level of employees, it can be 10 to 18% of the total arrears.
After getting information from the General Administration Department, the Finance Department has started the calculation regarding the arrears payment. On Tuesday, the officials of the Finance Department in the State Secretariat were busy in the calculation of arrears.
It is discussed that instead of officers, first employees will be given more arrears. A final decision will be taken in this regard within a day or two. If media reports are to be believed, then pensioners will also be assessed for arrears payment, all pensioners will be given arrears by adding them to the pension. The arrears to the employees and pensioners are to be paid from the year 2016. In this regard, notification of arrears payment will be issued by the Finance Department soon.
This will benefit 2.25 lakh employees and 1.90 lakh pensioners. According to media reports, the Finance Department will send a proposal of two options to the state government. Under the first option, the recommendation to give more arrears to the third and fourth class personnel than the officers, and in the second option, the favor of giving the full amount of arrears to these two categories of personnel at one go has also been favored.
Now the state government has to take a final decision regarding how much arrears should be given to which category.
