U.P. implements revised Pay Band for Class IV employees, Agricultural University teachers will get pay hike.

Extending a largesse to state employees, the UP government on Saturday announced to implement the revised pay scale band for Class IV employees as recommended by the Sixth Pay Commission.

The decision, which will benefit three lakh Class IV employees, was taken in the meeting of the state cabinet presided by Chief Minister Mayawati here today(04/09).

The pay committee, which was set up by the state government in early 2007 to study and suggest measures for the implementation of the Sixth Pay Commission report, had recommended pay band of Rs 4470-7440 and grade pay of Rs 1,400 for Class IV employees.

The UP government, however, on the patterns of the Center today decided to give the pay band of of Rs 5,200-20,200 and grade pay of Rs 1,800 to Class IV employees of the state. The UP government had announced to implement the recommendations of the Sixth Pay Commission for state employees in August 2007 and the decision was formally implemented from December 2007.

Along with the Sixth Pay Commission benefit, the state government accepting the recommendations of the Pay commission has decided to ban further recruitment in Class IV and declared it as a dying cadre. In future, the duties discharged by Class IV employees will be outsourced.

The government also decided to regularise the services of over 26,000 daily wages and work charges employees in different government departments, municipal bodies and urban development authorities, who were appointed before June 29, 1991.

The decision would entail an additional recurring financial burden of Rs 350 crore on account of Sixth Pay Commission benefit to Class IV employees and Rs 80 crore for regularisation of services of daily wage and work charge employees.

Moreover, the teachers of the three state agriculture universities at Kanpur, Faizabad and Meerut and one deemed agriculture university at Allahabad have also been given the benefit of the Sixth Pay Commission.

The cabinet also approved a proposal to implement revised pay scales as per the Sixth Pay Commission recommendations to teachers and equivalent cadre of state agriculture universities. It also approved a proposal to give advances to state employees for construction or purchase of house, car, two-wheeler and personal computer as per the recommendations of the state pay committee.

The Principal Secretary (Information), Vijay Shankar Pandey, said the daily wage and work charge employees in government departments, municipal bodies, housing board and development authorities were already getting salary equivalent to Class IV employees as per the court order.

“The decision will solve a big problem as thousands of cases related to regularisation of service were pending in the courts. While the employees were spending money on these cases, the pending litigation was also a big drain on the state exchequer, “ Pandey said.

He said that the government had already banned appointment of daily wage and work charge employees from June 29, 1991.

Source : Indian Express