low-rung police personnel would get one month's additional salary (Grade pay). A notification to this effect has been published by the Home Department.
The Grade Pay would be given to Constables, Havildars, Sepoys and lance Naiks. The maximum limit of the additional remuneration would be Rs 20,000, the notification stated.
The Home Department has issued the notification after the approval of the Finance Department.
This notification assumed significance as the Havildar, Constable and Sepoy Mahasangha protested the Government’s apathy by wearing black badges at work on Wednesday demanding fulfilment of a six-point charter of demands. Their demands included Grade Pay, daily ration allowance and regularisation of contractual jobs, among others.
The Mahasangha leaders had threatened that they would resort to cease-work from September 23 if their demands were not met by the Government by then. More than 60,000 Havildars, Constables and Sepoys have joined the agitation.