Close on heels of awarding a Diwali bonus to its employees, the Uttarakhand Government has decided to release the pending arrear of the Seventh Pay Commission to its employees. The pending arrear would be given to the employees in two instalments. An arrear for the period — January 2016 to December 2016 of the State Government employees — is pending. More than 2 lakh State Government employees would get benefitted from this announcement.
Principal Secretary Radha Raturi in an order said that the employees would get the first instalment of the pending arrear from January 2016 to June 2016 in the financial year 2017-18 while the pending arrear of the period — July 2016 to December 2016 — would be provided in the financial year 2018-19.
These instalments after necessary income tax deductions would be deposited in the Provident Fund (PF) account of the employees.
However, cash payment of the arrear amount would be made to those employees, who don’t have a PF account. For the employees covered under New Pension Scheme (NPS) an amount equal to 10 per cent of the arrear would be deducted and this figure along with an equal amount contributed by the State Government would be deposited in the Tier I pension account of the employees.
The employees, who got retired between January 2016 to December 2016, cash payment of the arrear amount would be made.
The president of the State Employees Joint Council, Thakur Prahlad Singh welcomed the decision of the State Government to release the VII pay commission arrear of the state government employees.
Recently the non gazetted employees of Uttarakhand Government were approved a productivity linked bonus of `7,000 before the festival of Diwali by the State Cabinet.