Sukhu’s Diwali gift: Nov salary and pension on Oct 28, pending 4% DA too

“Approximately 1.80 lakh authorities employees and different astir 1.70 lakh pensioners volition payment from these measures, which volition origin an further load of Rs 600 crore connected the authorities exchequer,” Sukhu said.

The CM said that astir 1.15 lakh authorities employees were fixed payment nether the Old Pension Scheme (OPS) but determination are astir 1,364 employees, who were covered nether the New Pension Scheme (NPS) and were deprived of the payment of definite allowances released by the cardinal government. “Our authorities has decided that these 1,364 employees volition besides beryllium fixed the allowances released by the cardinal government,” Sukhu told reporters astatine the authorities secretariat building.

The authorities authorities had connected September 4 announced to wage authorities employees their salaries connected the 5th and pensions of retirees connected the 10th of each month. Sukhu had past said that the determination was taken to utilise the state’s fiscal resources judiciously by mapping expenditures with receipts.

“We person present decided that the salaries of the authorities employees volition beryllium released connected archetypal day of each month. The time for releasing pension volition beryllium reduced by 1 each period successful the coming months,” helium added.

Last month, portion announcing alteration successful dates for disbursal of wage and pensions, Sukhu had said that authorities receives Rs 520 crore Revenue Deficit Grant (RDG) connected the 6th of each period and Rs 740 crore stock successful Central taxes connected the 10th day. “To merchandise the wage and pension amounting to Rs 2,000 crore, the authorities authorities takes loans astatine the complaint of 7 per cent. If we merchandise the wage and pension connected the 5th and tenth time of each month, our authorities volition prevention connected involvement worthy Rs 36 crore (on loans) annually,” Suku had said.

The CM, his furniture colleagues, and chairpersons of antithetic boards and corporations, whose salaries were deferred for 2 months, volition besides person the aforesaid connected October 28.

Sukhu, meanwhile, attacked his predecessor and BJP person Jai Ram Thakur for “misleading” Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Health Minister Jagat Singh Nadda connected the fiscal information of the state.