The 7th Pay Commission arrears pending amount of 18 months to government employees would be paid in six instalments. The first instalment would be paid in current fiscal year of 2018-19. The total burden on the exchequer in form of arrears of 7th Pay Commission is around Rs 3300 crores, said Chief Minister Raman Singh.
He made the announcement during the ‘Mobile Tihar’ organised at Mahant Sarveshwar Das Municipal Council Higher Secondary School premises, Rajnandgaon on Saturday. He was inaugurating the distribution of smart phones in urban and rural areas of Rajnandgaon district.
“The smart mobile phone is a tool which can bring changes in life of common man. 40 lakh sisters during ‘Teeja’ and ‘Pora tihar’ are being given smart phones as they run the households. It would assist in working,” said Chief Minister. He adds, it will empower women of state. State would be now known as ‘Smart Chhattisgarh’. State will have 15000 villages connected with internet by laying optical cable. Rajnandgaon district would have 232 mobile towers.
On favourable decisions taken by government employees, Chief Minister said that on January 1, 2016 those directly recruited government employees having completed 30 years of service would get four-tier time pay-scale wages. This would benefit lakhs of employees. Earlier, from April 1, 2006 three-tier system was in place. The contractual women employees would get 180 days of maternity leave with wages. There is a 10 percent limit, for posts in all departments for direct recruitment of class three category compassionate appointments which has been relaxed for one-and-a-half months. 505 promotion based posts of assistant engineers have been sanctioned for promotion of sub engineers in water resources department. The police personnel would have 10,000 additional houses.