U'khand Govt extends benefits of 6th Pay Commission to employees

Ahead of the Lok Sabha polls, the Uttarakhand Government has extended the benefits of the Sixth Pay Commission, heaping in a bonanza for over 11,000 teachers and non-teaching staff and provided grade pay to 1.63 lakh employees.

The decision to implement the new pay report would put an additional burden of over Rs 4,000 crore in terms of arrears and payment of salaries till the end of this fiscal. 

The total budget of the state in the current fiscal is approximately Rs 5,600 crore. 

Besides this, the Uttarakhand Cabinet has also declared benefits such as Assured carrer  Progression (ACP) and increase in House Rent Allowance for its employees.

At present, the state government has 1,63,000 employees and 65,000 jobs were still lying vacant.

source : UNI