Employees, New pay Commission: Major preparations have been made by the state government. Under this, employees will be given the benefit of the new pay commission. This has been approved by the Finance Department.
The Finance Department has given approval to give new pay commission from the current date. Whereas they were to be paid the arrears since 2016. Which has not been mentioned. In such a situation, the file of the Finance Department will now be sent again to the department and it will be presented for approval from the Cabinet.
Approval from Finance Department for giving new pay commission
Himachal Government has received approval from the Finance Department to give Sixth Pay Commission to 4700 employees working under Zilla Parishad cadre. The Finance Department has given approval to give new pay commission to the Zilla Parishad employees from the present date, whereas from the date on which the notification of new pay scale for the employees in the state has been issued, the Zilla Parishad employees will also get the benefit of the new pay commission from the same date. Had to be given. Since there is no mention of the arrears of 2016 in the order issued, the file will once again be sent to the Finance Department which will be presented in the Cabinet.
Notification was also issued in the previous government to provide new pay commission to Zilla Parishad cadre employees. Notification was issued to provide new pay commission to the employees from the current date. Which was protested by the employees. Now again clarification has been sought in this matter. It is true that the employees of Zilla Parishad cadre will get the benefit of the new pay commission but this benefit will be made available to them from 2016. There is still doubt on this issue till date.
Here, the employees of Himachal Zilla Parishad cadre say that like other employees of the state, they too should get the benefit of the new pay commission from 2016 itself. If injustice is done to the Zilla Parishad employee then the employee will be forced to approach the court. Recently, Zilla Parishad cadre employees had gone on strike on 22nd December regarding their demands. In which the main demand was for merger. The main issue of Zilla Parishad employees is the merger with Panchayati Raj and Rural Development Department. This issue will be discussed in the meeting to be held on October 30. Along with this, benefits can also be gained after discussing the issue of new pay commission.