New Year bonanza for Haryana Govt employees

New Year bonanza for Haryana Govt employees

In a New Year bonanza to about 3.5 lakh state government employees, Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda today announced implementation of recommendations for higher pay, becoming the first state to put in effect the Sixth Pay Commission's proposals.

Hooda said the cabinet, which met here today under his chairmanship, approved the recommendations of the Pay Revision Commission constituted under the Chairmanship of the Chief Secretary to work out modalities for implementation of proposals of the sixth Pay Commission.

The pay revision would be made effective from 1st January, 2006.

The Chief Minister said that with the revision of the pay scales of the employees, net additional burden in the year 2008-09 and 2009-10 would be Rs. 6431.26 crore.

Addressing a press conference here after the cabinet meet, he said Haryana is the first state in the country to have implemented the recommendations of the 6th Pay Commission from January 1, 2006 and to pay arrear in cash to its employees.

He said the employees would be given revised pay from January, 2009, and 40 per cent of the arrears of pay would be paid in cash in the year 2008-09.

"The revision in allowances would be made effective prospectively, from January, 2009. The revision of pay scale and allowances had given substantial increase in salary to all categories of employees," he said.

Hooda said arrears of pay for 2006-2008 on account of pay revision would be about Rs. 3350 crore. Of this, about Rs. 2750 crore would be due to pay revision of group C and D employees.