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Pay hike for U.P. Govt. staff, teachers

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Chief Minister Mayawati at a press conference in Lucknow on Monday.

LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati on Monday announced a pay bonanza for over 14-lakh government employees and teachers in accordance with the Sixth Pay Commission’s recommendations. The move would benefit 8.7-lakh State employees and around 5.5-lakh teachers.

Making this announcement on the opening day of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly session, the Chief Minister said the panel’s recommendations would be implemented with retrospective effect from January 1, 2006 and the employees would be entitled for the revised payscales from December 1, 2008.

The Chief Minister said an additional expenditure of Rs.5,179 crore would be entailed by the State government with the payment of arrears from January 1, 2006 costing another Rs. 14,775 crore to the State exchequer.

She said the expenditure would be borne by the State’s resources and considering that the additional financial burden would leave an impact on the pace of the development works steps had been initiated to tide over the resource crunch and to ensure that the burden does not pass on to the common man.

Cutting down on unproductive and wasteful expenditure, curbing tax evasion and mopping up additional resources were the measures outlined by the Chief Minister.

Addressing journalists later, the Chief Minister said a Wages Committee for revising the existing payscales has been constituted under a retired bureaucrat, Jagmohan Lal Bajaj.

The committee would submit its report within three months, Ms. Mayawati added. The Bajaj panel will try to strike a balance as the existing payscales in the State government do not match those of the Central employees.

Stating that the State employees were reeling under the impact of the rising prices of essential commodities, Ms. Mayawati said the move would provide a huge relief to the employees.

She criticised the Central government for the delay in accepting the Sixth Pay Commission’s report and said had it been implemented earlier by the Centre price rise could have been checked. Last week’s inflation rate of 12.44 per cent was the highest in the last 15 to 16 years, she said.

She supported the pay hike for the employees and said the Centre should take steps for sharing the burden incurred by the State governments.

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