Former Punjab Chief Secretary R S Mann was on Wednesday appointed as the Chairman of Sixth Punjab Pay Commission by Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal.
A spokesperson of the Chief Minister’s Office said that Badal cleared the appointment of R S Mann as the Chairman of Sixth Punjab Pay Commission, with effect from Wednesday.
The spokesperson said the new Chairman has been mandated to give recommendations with regard to new pay scales for the employees and revision in the pension for pensioners/family pensioners of the state government after having detailed deliberations with the various state employees’ and pensioners’ associations.
Punjab Finance Minister Parminder Singh Dhindsa, had last month, described a high salary bill as the “biggest problem” the State was facing at present.
“Punjab’s biggest problem is high salary of employees. Our salary, pension and retirement benefits bill has reached `28,000 crore and it is growing by `3,000 crore per annum. That is the thing which we have to look into,” he had said.