Himachal Pradesh: CM Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu announces 4% DA to 3.50 lakh employees and pensioners of the State

Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu announced 4 per cent DA for the employees and pensioners of the State benefitting 1.80 lakh employees and 1.70 lakh pensioners from 1st January, 2023 thereby bearing an other load of Rs 600 crore per twelvemonth connected the State exchequer.

In summation to this, the Chief Minister announced that the employees and pensioners volition person their November wage and pension connected 28th October up of Deepawali.

He stated this portion addressing media persons present today. The Chief Minister besides announced to wide each the pending aesculapian bills of employees and retirees for which a proviso of Rs. 10 crores has already been made. He directed the acrophobic departments to wide each the pending aesculapian bills this period and an capable fund volition beryllium provided to the departments for this arsenic per their demand.

He besides announced that full afloat magnitude of pending arrears to each pensioners supra 75 years of property volition beryllium paid. He said that a full of Rs 202 crore would beryllium spent successful this fiscal twelvemonth implicit the wage and pension arrears.

He besides announced that an further installment of arrears amounting to Rs. 20,000 for class-IV employees volition beryllium released to them successful this fiscal itself.

Himachal Pradesh volition beryllium self-reliant by 2027 and determination was nary specified fiscal crunch arsenic being propagated successful the media by the National and the State BJP leaders. He took a jibe astatine the person of the Opposition for spreading lies astir the fiscal presumption of the State and adjacent misleading the Prime Minister and BJP nationalist President.

He said that BJP has near nary chromatic unturned successful spreading misinformation astir the State's fiscal health. The outgo of owed magnitude of the employees including DA and arrears is grounds to the information that the State Government was committed to addressing the grievances of its employees and determination is nary specified fiscal crunch arsenic of now.