Pay Commission: Good news for TN govt employees! Jayalalithaa assures change in pay scale
New Delhi, Feb 19: Announcing a slew of welfare measures for the government employees, school and college teachers Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Friday said that the new pay commission would consider demand for change in pay scale of the government employees.
The measures included hike in pension schemes and promotion for the government employees.
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"These demands could be considered only by taking into consideration the hierarchy and parity. So only the pay commission will consider these demands," Jayalalithaa was quoted as saying in the daily.
Jobs under compassionate grounds would be regularised through a common government order to avoid delay, Jayalalithaa said.
Those appointed under compassionate grounds could get employment benefits like increment only after regularisation. For posts that need relaxation in norms, nod of TNPSC would be obtained and government orders would be issued relaxing norms, she said.
Till such time TNPSC approval is received, such employees would be treated as temporary government employees and they would be given annual increment.
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The
pension
for
retired
nutritious
meal
employees
would
be
increased
to
Rs
1,500
from
the
present
Rs
1000
benefiting
86,873
employees
and
it
would
cost
an
additional
Rs
51.13
crore
for
the
government.
Similarly,
cash
benefits
would
be
increased
to
Rs
60,000
from
the
present
Rs
50,000
for
nutritious
meal
workers.
Also,
cash
benefits
for
chef
and
cooking
assistants
would
also
be
increased
to
Rs
25,000
from
Rs
20,000,
she
said.
She also announced relaxation in service norms covering eligibility for promotion. In the Rural Development Department, eligibility for supervisors for getting promoted to the post of Junior Engineer would now be reduced to seven years from ten years, she said.
A total of 157 associate professors serving in Government Medical College Hospitals would be promoted as professors. Bringing 1,500 nurses under time-scale of pay, promotion for 605 village sanitary nurses, hike of Rs 5000 in honorarium for guest lecturers --from Rs 10,000 to Rs 15,000 per month, setting up an administrative tribunal were among other announcements, she made.
On representations related to pay, issues like bringing those under consolidated pay into the time-scale bracket and parity will be examined by the pay commission, she said.
"I believe that the new announcements will pave the way for government employees work with a new vigour," she said. Legislators, including CK Thamizharasan (RPI) and Jawahirullah (Manithaneya Makkal Katchi), praised and welcomed the new announcements.
OneIndia News
(With inputs from agencies)