J & K Cabinet likely to clear pay hike today

Update at 2 PM : Cabinet approved 7th CPC

Click here for SRO 193

Jammu and Kashmir government has approved the implementation of 7th pay commission recommendations and the employees will draw revised salaries from the current month.

“As already announced by Govt, the employees to draw revised scales of pay from current month,” said the information department on Twitter.

All necessary notifications regarding implementation of 7th Pay Commission Recommendations to be issued by JK Finance Deptt by this evening

— DIPR-J&K (@diprjk) April 24, 2018

Earlier News :

The State Cabinet is scheduled to meet at Civil Secretariat at 11:00AM on Tuesday. Sources said that the meeting will discuss implementation of 7th Pay Commission in J&K besides some cases of land transfer to various government departments. Earlier, the meet was scheduled for 4:00PM on April 24. However, it was preponed for 11:00AM. It has been learnt that some of the BJP ministers including Deputy Chief Minister are scheduled to leave back for New Delhi to participate in final round of meeting with President Amit Shah in connection with the selection of new ministers.
J&K has a total employee population of around 4.5 lakh persons, working in different departments. The government had made the commitment for implementing the pay commission recommendations from April 1, during the budget session earlier this year with retrospective effect from January 2016.