In good news for a section of the State Government employees with a few days left for Diwali, the State Government has released a Government order on Saturday, providing a corpus of Rs 278.90 crore to pay salaries and allowances to the employees of municipal corporations, municipal councils, nagar panchayats, district panchayats, kshetra panchayats and gram panchayats. The fund approved by the fourth State Finance Commission would also be utilised for speeding up development projects.
On the direction of the Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat, the state secretary (finance) Amit Singh Negi has released the GO on Saturday. It is learnt that Rs 58.60 crore has been released for six municipal corporations based at Haridwar, Haldwani, Rudrapur, Roorkee, Kashipur and Dehradun. From this released fund, the corporations would give salaries and allowances to the employees on approved posts as well as clearing the dues of various departments. Sanitation related vehicles like dumper and JCB can also be purchased from the approved fund. Rs 69.39 crore has been released for 40 municipal councils while Rs 9.15 crore for 14 nager panchayats. Besides, Rs 121.85 crore has been released for three- tier panchayts which include Rs 42.64 crore for district panchayat, Rs 36.55 crore for 95 kshetra panchayats and 42.64 crore for Rs 7953 gram panchayats.