Sharp hike in salaries on cards for Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation staff.

The 8,000-odd employees of the Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation in Maharastra are in for a windfall as the civic body has decided to implement the recommendations of the Sixth Pay Commission for them. While the salaries of the employees will go up by nearly 21 per cent, it will put a financial burden of Rs 28.32 crore on the corporation every year.

The employees will get the benefits with retrospective effect from January 1, 2006, from when the state government has implemented the recommendations of the pay panel. The difference in salaries will be paid in five instalments over the next five years.

The decision to implement the sixth pay commission recommendations was taken at the civic standing committee. Earlier, the salary restructuring committee of the PCMC had held meetings to discuss the issue.

The committee also decided to pay Rs 15 lakh as consultancy fee to an independent agency for preparing the tender to buy 650 buses under a public-private partnership (PPP).

Meanwhile, various civic organisations opposed to the PPP model have decided to hold an agitation on Tuesday at the office of the divisional commissioner Dilip Band.

Source : Times of India.