M.P. :Co-op sector employees to get 5th pay commission benefits

In an important move the state government has decided to provide the benefits of the Fifth Pay Commission to the employees and officials of the cooperative societies all-over the state. With this decision, the employees of the cooperative sector will get enhanced salary and other benefits of the Fifth Pay Commission effective from January 1 2009. A decision to this effect was taken in Bhopal yesterday night during a meeting of the high-power committee presided over by the State cooperative, PDS and PHE minister Gaurishankar Bisen.
Announcing benefits of the Fifth Pay Commission for the employees of cooperative sector, in Indore today, Bisen said the decision has been taken in continuation to the announcements made by Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan at a `cooperative panchayat' convened by him in Bhopal on September 30 last year.
As per the decisions taken, the employees of the district central cooperative banks, district agro cooperative banks and the rural development banks in the state will be given benefits of the Fifth Pay Commission. Similarly, employees the Madhya Pradesh State Cooperative Agriculture and the rural development banks will be given dearness allowances from the date announced by the state government.
Talking about the other decisions taken in the high-power committee meeting, the minister said that assistant society managers of the Primary Agriculture Credit Societies will be given a minimum salary of Rs 2500/month. Similarly the sellers of Primary Agriculture Cooperative Credit Societies as well as `tulawatis' and `chowkidars' will be given a minimum salary of Rs 2000 and Rs 1500 per month respectively. A notification to this effect will be made by the state government soon.
Bisen said the state government has also decided to increase the salaries of areas assistants of the marketing federations up to Rs 4500 per month and peons, chowkidars to Rs 3750 per months.
When asked as what would be the financial implications of the salary hike on the state government's coffers, the minister said that he had not worked out on this aspect but at the same time claimed that the decisions would have negligible fiscal bearing on the department.
Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan during the course of the cooperative panchayat held in Bhopal on September 30 last year, had made seven important announcements for the employees of cooperative sector. These announcements included increase in the retirement age of cooperative sector employees from 58 to 60 years, benefits of the dearness allowances to the employees of state cooperative agriculture rural development bank from the date of its announcement, implementation of the Fifth Pay Commission's recommendations for the employees of the district central cooperative bank and the rural development bank, regularization of the services of the daily wages employees of the cooperative sector among others.

 Source : Central chronicle.