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Pay hike for U.P. staff, teachers

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.

Ms. Mayawati 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.

The Chief Minister said the expenditure would be borne by the State’s resources.

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