Himachal Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh on Thursday announced that enhancing the retirement age of the employees of the State Government to 60 years would be taken up in the State Cabinet meeting.
Attending the inaugural session of the meeting of Joint Consultative Committee of the HP Non-Gazetted Employees Federation organised, here on Thursday, he announced Dearness Allowance to the employees due from July, 2016 besides enhancing the Capital Allowance and Tribal Allowance in proportion.
The chief minister said the employees were backbone of the government who had been enormously contributing for the development of the state.
Chief Secretary, V.C Pharka said the employees were the integral part of the government and it was due to their hard work that Himachal Pradesh had emerged as role model for the development of hilly states. He said the state government has always been considerate to the demands of the employees and their genuine demands would be considered in future as well.
Pharka said that the cases of anomalies particularly in Grade Pay should be sent to him through the Secretaries concerned for further examination and redressal. On the issue of qualification bar of 10+2 and one time relaxation in promotion for class-IV employees to the post of clerk, he said an appropriate decision would be taken soon by the government.
The chief secretary said the State Government has filled thousands of posts in different departments during last four years and vacant functional posts of exigency would be filled up soon for which he asked the departments to send proposals.