Chhattisgarh government has announced to increase the salary of its state employees, contract employees, daily workers, patwari, guest teachers. Along with this, the home rent allowance of government servants has also been increased.
Whereas, special allowance has been announced for Panchayat Secretaries. Employees are going to get the benefit of the announcement of the state government on a large scale.
Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel announced Rs 2,000 crore for state employees and contract workers during the discussion on the supplementary budget on Wednesday. The Chief Minister has increased the dearness allowance for the state employees by 4 percent, after which the dearness allowance has become equal to 42 percent of the central employees. More than 5 lakh state employees will get the benefit of this. Due to increase in dearness allowance, an additional burden of Rs 800 crore will come on the government.
While giving a gift to the contract employees, the Chief Minister has announced a tremendous increase in their salary. The government has increased the pay scale of contract employees by 27%. Let us tell you that for a long time the contractual employees of the state were demanding an increase in salary. The government’s decision will benefit more than 37,000 contract workers.
Patwari, guest teacher, daily wage earner increased
6,000 Patwaris of the state will also get the benefit of the salary hike. The government has increased the salary of all Patwari by Rs 500 per month. With this, the government will have to spend an additional Rs 4 crore every month. Similarly, giving a gift to the guest teachers, the state government has announced an increase of Rs 2,000 in the monthly salary. At the same time, the rate of registered daily wage workers under the Labor Department has been increased by Rs 4 thousand per month. The daily incentive amount of Mitanin trainers, block co-ordinators and help desk operators has been increased by Rs 100 per day.
House rent allowance of government servants increased
The Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh has increased the house rent allowance to government servants on the 7th pay scale. The state government has reduced the HRA to 9% for B class cities. Whereas, 6% house rent allowance has been given for C category and other cities. Tell that till now the house rent allowance was being given to the government servants on the 6th pay scale.
Announcement of special allowance for Panchayat Secretaries
Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel has announced special allowance for Panchayat Secretaries. Under which the allowance has been increased by Rs 2500 for those with less than 15 years of service. Whereas, an increase of Rs 3000 has been made for those with more than 15 years of service. Apart from this, Panchayat secretaries will also be given the benefit of earned leave, maternity and paternity leave, ex-gratia amount up to Rs 10 lakh and reimbursement of medical expenses up to Rs 5 lakh.
