Merger of DA with basic pay for NTC employees

New Delhi, Mar 14: The Government today allowed the merger of 50per cent DA with basic pay from April 1, 2004 to the CDA employees inPublic Sector Undertakings (CPSUs).

In a written reply to the Rajya Sabha, Minister of State forTextiles E V K S Elangovan made it clear that, however, as perDepartment of Public Enterprises order dated May 24, 2005, such mergershall be allowed to employees of those PSUs that are not loss makingand are in a position to absorb the additional expenditure on accountof merger with basic pay from their own resources without any budgetarysupport from the Government.

Accordingly, the Board of Directors decided to implement theseorders from October 1, 2006 only, after reviewing the perfomance of thecompany for the year 2005-06.

On increase in textile units under integrated textile parks, theMinister said the target under the scheme for Integrated Textile Parks(SITP) during the 10th Five Year Plan has been increased to 30 TextileParks.

Under the SITP, so far, 26 projects have been sanctioned -- ninein 2005-06 and 17 in 2006-07. State-wise break is: Gujarat andMaharashtra six each, Tamil Nadu (five), Andhra Pradesh (four),Rajasthan (two), Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal (one each).

Estimated project cost of these 26 parks (common infrastructure /facilities) is Rs 2,433.35 crore, of which the Centre's support wouldbe Rs 869 crore. So far, Rs 73.56 crore has been released to 22 TextileParks.

Regarding handloom clusters in Maharashtra, Mr Elangovan said thatthe Integrated Handloom Cluster Development Scheme has been introducedduring the year 2005-06. Twenty clusters were selected during the year2005-06 by the Government in different states for their holisticdevelopment.

Further, additional 100 Clusters in different parts of the countryhave been selected in 2006-07 in consultation with the state Governmentand Weavers' Service Centre concerned.

This includes three clusters in Maharashtra -- Yeola in Nasikdistrict, Mohadi in Bhandara district and Kamptee in Nagpur district,he added.

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