Nearly 48,000 employees of the Mizoram government will get a major Christmas gift in the form of a new pay scale on a par with the recommendations of the Centre’s sixth pay panel.
The decision to grant the new pay scale to its employees by the Congress government was taken at a two-day cabinet meeting, which ended on Wednesday in Aizawl. It was presided over by chief minister Lalthanhawla, who also holds the finance department.
A spokesman for the state government said the recommendations of the Central Pay Commission would be implemented with retrospective effect from January 1, 2006. Fifty per cent of he arrears, he said, would be paid in cash and the rest would be deposited in the provident fund of each employee.
The spokesman added that the recommendations of the state-level fitment committee (the panel which studies the paysclaes and suggests recommendations), to fix a new scale for the different groups of employees, were also approved by the state cabinet.
The state government also constituted a new high-level committee headed by horticulture minister H. Liansailova to deal with the few anomalies that still persist in the pay panel report relating to the grouping of the government employees.
The finance commissioner of the Mizoram government, C. Lalsawta, said paying the arrears meant the state government would have to cope with Rs 151 crore as additional expenditure. Another Rs 68.07 crore, he said, would be required during this current fiscal to regularly pay the salaries to the large number of the government employees in a land where the total population is estimated at a little over nine lakh.
Lalsawta, however, said it would not be a problem for the Mizoram government as such an expenditure was envisaged in the current state budget.
source:The Telegraph
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