About 1.10 lakh employees who had retired before formation of Uttarakhand State will be given revised pension from January 2016 instead of November 2018.
This will entail an additional financial burden of about Rs 180 crore on the State Government.
The Parliamentary Affairs minister Madan Kaushik said this while responding to a question raised by the Raipur MLA Umesh Sharma ‘Kau’ in the Assembly on Friday.
While raising the issue during question hour, the MLA said that 95 per cent of the pension amount for these pensioners is borne by the Uttar Pradesh Government while only five per cent is borne by the State Government. Stating this, he asked whether the State was considering paying these pensioners revised pensions from 2016 onward instead of 2018 onward.
In the written reply, Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat who also handles the Finance portfolio stated that the Government was considering this, adding that this would depend on the financial resources of the State.
Elaborating on this, the Parliamentary Affairs minister Madan Kaushik informed that the Government was ready to pay the revised pensions to these 1.10 lakh pensioners as per the recommendations of the seventh pay commission from 2016 onward.This would entail an additional financial burden of Rs 180 crore on the State Government.