The 7th pay commission of the state has suffered a major setback to 4 lakh 75 thousand pensioners. Actually, they will have to wait a long time for the pension of October. Let us know the complete information about it.
Actually the main reason for this is that pensioners’ pension is made available from banks, which is a provision to be given at the beginning of the month. In such a situation, banks will have to pay pension to the pensioners in the month of November. At the same time, for changes in this, the government will have to contact the head quarters of the banks.
The system will be updated by the head quarter of the bank only after that the pension can be paid. Advance amount of pension of pensioners has not been received in Chhattisgarh. Every month Rs.1030 crores has to be given to Chhattisgarh from Madhya Pradesh in the expenditure on pension.
Due to non-payment of the same amount, there may be technical problem in advance pension of pensioners. After this, on the one hand, where the advance is being paid to the employees before Diwali. Pensioners will have to wait for 10 more days for October pension. Pension will be paid to them in the month of November.
Apart from this, the benefit of additional 5% dearness relief is not being provided to the pensioners due to lack of consent from Chhattisgarh. However, orders have been issued to give 5% dearness allowance to the employees in Chhattisgarh. Due to which the dearness allowance has increased from 28 to 33 percent.
Whereas in Chhattisgarh, at present no decision has been taken regarding the increase of pension and dearness relief to the pensioners. While a consent letter has been written by the Shivraj government of Madhya Pradesh to increase dearness relief by 5%, but no agreement has been reached on that too.
Due to the problem in technical aspects, pensioners of both the states are facing a loss of 500 to 5000 per month as compared to the pensioners of the Centre. On one hand, the central government is giving the benefit of 38% dearness relief to its pensioners. At present only 28% dearness relief is being provided to pensioners in Madhya Pradesh.
However, section 49 of the States Reorganization Act 2000 has a major role to play. In fact, in 2017, the Chief Secretary of the then Raman Singh government had issued a MoU. In which consent was sought from Madhya Pradesh to abolish Section 49. However, then the Madhya Pradesh government did not take any interest and the pensioners’ matter got stuck.
On the other hand, if section 49 is abolished, then Madhya Pradesh alone will have to bear the expenses of the pensioners’ pension and the amount due on dearness relief. In such a situation, the entire 1200 crore rupees will also have to be given to Madhya Pradesh. At the same time, 170 crore rupees will be saved for Chhattisgarh.
