Publish Date: | Thu, 03 Mar 2022 09:36 PM (IST)
14% more amount will be arranged for the pensioner
MP Budget 2022: Bhopal (State Bureau). The state employees are angry with the government over various demands. If the process of promotion is stopped from the year 2016, then dearness allowance is also getting less than the central employees. To bridge this gap, the government is going to make budget provision. All the departments will reserve the amount for dearness allowance and relief at the rate of 31 percent under the establishment head. In this, there will be 14 percent amount for pensioners because they are getting 14 percent less dearness relief as compared to central employees.
Before the Corona period, Madhya Pradesh was giving dearness allowance and relief to its employees at par with the central employees. After this, the central government has increased the dearness allowance of the employees to 31 percent, but the employees of the state are getting 20 percent dearness allowance.
At the same time, dearness relief to pensioners is being given only 17 percent. In fact, the Chhattisgarh government had agreed only to increase the dearness relief by five percent. The consent of both the states is mandatory for increasing the dearness relief. Sources say that in the budget, annual increment of employees, time scale pay scale, dearness allowance and establishment expenditure will be increased for relief. Three more dearness allowance and 31 percent amount will be kept for relief in the salary item.
Pensioners Association demanded to increase dearness relief by three percent
On the other hand, Pensioners Association Madhya Pradesh has demanded from Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan to increase the dearness relief by three percent to twenty percent. Ganesh Dutt Joshi, senior vice-president of the association, said that at present we are getting less than three percent dearness relief from the employees. It is being stopped in the name of the consent of both the states, while the central government has said in 2016 itself that the states can take their own decisions.
Posted By: Hemant Kumar Upadhyay