Haryana govt staff get 25% pay hike
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Chandigarh: Keeping his word of implementing the recommendations of the Sixth Pay Commission, Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Monday gifted about 3.5 lakh employees a raise 25 % in their pay packages.
The chief minister made this announcement on the recommendations of the Pay Revision Committee (PRC) constituted under the chairmanship of the chief secretary to work out the modalities for the implementation in the state.
‘‘The recommendations will be made effective from January 1, 2006. With this, the state achieves another first in the country,’’ the chief minister said adding that the revision of the pay scales of the employees will cause state a net additional burden of Rs 6,431.26 crore in the year 2008-09 and 2009-10.
Employees would be given revised pay from January, 2009, and 40% 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 the month of January, 2009.
Besides, the revision of pay scales and allowances had given substantial increase in salary to all categories of employees, he added. Hooda said that the cabinet felt that the Government of India’s decision to discontinue further recruitment at class IV level and to absorb all existing class IV employees in class III level was not feasible in Haryana, as the administrative structure in various line departments functionally required class IV deployments. He said that on the pattern of the Government of India, the cabinet also accepted the PRC recommendations to upgrade the pre-revised pay scales of certain cadres. The number of posts upgraded in this manner was about 44.
Prominent among these were the posts of JBT teachers, masters, school lecturers, headmasters, police constables, assistant sub inspectors (ASI) and inspectors and the nursing cadre and radiographers in the health department.
He said that it had also been decided to upgrade the pre-revised pay scales of posts carrying essential qualification of degree in law, engineering or MBBS from Rs 6,500-9,900 and Rs 6,500-10,500 to Rs 7,450-11,500. Prominent posts upgraded in this manner were of ADA in the prosecution department and of project officer in the renewable energy department.
The cabinet approved introduction of cadre-specific ACP schemes for senior dental surgeons, Ayush doctors and engineers in the panchayati raj department (engineering wing) and for assistant architect and architect in architecture department and ATP in town and country planning department and JE in panchayati raj and town and country planning department.