The State Cabinet on Tuesday decided to implement Seventh Pay Commission recommendations for the teaching staff of State universities and colleges affiliated to them.
Addressing the media post Cabinet meeting, Additional Chief Secretary Planning cum Finance department Sukhdev Singh, said, "The revised pay will be implemented from January 1, 2016 and the State will have to bear an additional cost of Rs 88.14 crore annually and arrears worth Rs 264 crore."
A total of 20 decisions were taken in the Cabinet meeting held on Tuesday in which education sector was a major focus.
The Council of Ministers also approved the proposal of sanctioning 56 posts for blind schools and deaf and mute schools coming up in the State. The buildings for these schools were constructed by women, child development and social security department and the Government has sanctioned starting one such school in every division.
“A blind high school would come up in Ranchi, a deaf and mute school will come up in Chaibasa and Hazaribagh each while a blind middle school would come up in Dumka,” Singh said.
The Cabinet also approved leave encashment for teachers retiring for aided, non government school. There are around 800 such schools, especially minority, where the teachers after retiring would get pension but could not apply for leave encashment.
“A case was filed by the schools in court to get leave encashment option and the Supreme Court gave a ruling in favour of the teachers. Following this, the Cabinet has approved giving the option of leave encashment for teachers who retired from these schools after January 3, 2014," Singh said.
The permission for establishing nursing colleges in the State will now be given by the Jharkhand Nursing Registration Council (JNRC).
Earlier, the permission was given by Indian Nursing Council but the Supreme Court ruled that the council had no authority to give such permissions and the state governments should take decision in the matter.
The Cabinet also approved the proposal for the crèches constructed under National Crèche Scheme to be run by either NGOs or Sakhi Mandals. Singh said, "If the crèche is being run by Sakhi Mandals the centre will bear 60% cost and state will bear 40% cost but if it’s being run by NGO then the cost sharing would be 60% centre, 30% state and 10% NGO."
The cabinet approved giving out 7 decimal land in Potka circle of Jamshedpur on 30 years lease to Om Sai Shikshan and Kalyan Sansthan for commercial purpose. Also, 49.41 decimal land in Jamshedpur will be given to GAIL on 30 years lease for urban gas pipeline schemes worth Rs. 5.68 crore. A total of 5.492 acre gair majarua land in Godda Sadar Circle would be transferred to rail ministry for construction of Godda-Peerpainti broad gauge line.
The cost for construction of railway over bridge (ROB) between Deoghar Satsang Birkh Path to Baidnath Railway station, which was estimated to be Rs. 31.39 crore in 2016 but has been revised to Rs. 40.56 crore and now includes land acquisition and utility shifting, was also approved by the cabinet. Also, The revised budget of Rs. 56.91 crore, which was earlier 46.67 crore, for construction of road from Ashok Cinema to Chhatarpur road in Ramgarh has been approved.
Among other major decisions were construction of mega sports complex in Dhanbad, amendment in Jharkhand University Act, 2000, approval of Jharkhand Mineral Area Development Authority Amendment Bill, 2019 and others.