There is good news for the government employees of the Union Territory of Chandigarh. They will now be given the same salary and other benefits as the central employees. This is because a proposal related to this has been approved by the Union Home Ministry.
Last night, two days after Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s announcement in this regard, the Ministry of Home Affairs issued rules in this regard. Shah had said that the conditions of service of the employees of Chandigarh Administration will be similar to that of the Central Civil Services and it will benefit the employees of Chandigarh in a big way.
According to the Chandigarh Union Territory Employees (Conditions of Service) Rules-2022, which will be applicable from the new financial year i.e. April 1, 2022, the pay scale of A, B and C category personnel of Chandigarh Administration will be the same as that of the Central Government employees.
The pay scale and other service conditions of Group D category personnel of Chandigarh Administration will be at par with their equivalent Group C employees of Central Government. The employees under the administrative control of the Union Territory of Chandigarh were earlier paid the same pay scale as their counterpart in Punjab. But it has been said in the new rule that the Union Territory of Chandigarh will be able to increase the salary of its employees.