Himachal News: Gift to Five Lakh Government Employees and Pensioners, Arrears will be Received, HP Government Issued Notification
Kumud Sharma, Diary Times, Shimla, March 04: The Sukhu government of Himachal Pradesh has given a big gift to about five lakh government employees and pensioners. Sukhu Government of Himachal Pradesh has taken an important decision to pay the arrears of revised pay scale to the regular government employees from January 1, 2016. Along with this, an important decision has also been taken by the Sukhu Government to pay the outstanding amount of dearness allowance payable to the regular employees of the state from July 1, 2022. A notification in this regard has been issued by the Himachal Finance Department on Monday.
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1.5 percent of the total arrears of the revised pay scale is going to be paid in the month of March and three percent is going to be paid annually in the financial year 2024, which is going to be distributed at the rate of 0.25 percent of the total arrears per month. The arrears of the revised pay scale are going to be distributed monthly along with salary and pension.
On the other hand, the Arrears of dearness allowance along with the salaries of regular government employees are going to be distributed at a monthly rate of 1.5 percent in the financial year 2024-25. At the same time, it is going to be ensured that the amount of arrears does not exceed the limit prescribed for arrears of pay scale and DA.
Let us tell you that while presenting the second budget of its tenure, the Sukhu government had announced to give arrears of the new pay scale to two lakh employees in a phased manner and to issue four percent dearness allowance to about three and a half lakh employees-pensioners.
Four percent dearness allowance was issued by the Sukhu government to the state employees and pensioners on March 2. Increased dearness allowance is going to be given in arrears from July 2022. Employees of state are going to get cash in the salary for the month of April which will be received in the month of May. Now payment of arrears has also been announced.
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