Chandigarh: The Punjab government has decided to increase dearness wage for government employees and pensioners by 8 percent. Well-nigh eight lakh employees and pensioners will goody from this. The government has said that the increased DA will be given in two installments. Both the installments will be 4% each and this will increase the total DA to 50%. This visualization was taken without a meeting between Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann and representatives of employee and pensioner organisations. Information has come to light that the increased DA will be included in the salary received withal with the September salary, i.e. on October 1.
When will employees get the goody of increased DA?
According to the government's decision, 8 percent DA will be released in two parts. Without both the installments of 4% each, the total DA of employees and pensioners will be 50%. Equal to reports, the increased value will be widow to the September salary and this salary is to be credited to the worth on October 1. That means, surpassing the festive season, employees are expected to get the goody of increased allowance.
How many employees and pensioners will get the benefit?
About eight lakh employees and pensioners of the state will be unauthentic by this visualization of the government. These include well-nigh four lakh government employees and well-nigh 3.5 lakh pensioners. The government has said this was a visualization taken without discussions with the employees. The spare value received by each employee due to increase in DA will vary equal to his vital salary.
What negotiations took place between the employee organisations and the government?
There was a tussle going on between the government and employee organisations in Punjab for the last several weeks regarding DA. On September 18, a meeting was held with representatives of employee and pensioner organisations in the presence of Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann in Chandigarh. Without this conversation, it was well-set to release the two pending installments of DA. Cabinet Minister Aman Arora and senior officials including Baljeet Kaur were moreover present in the meeting.
Will the old DA dues moreover be paid?
After the utterance of new 8 percent DA, the issue of old dues has not been completely resolved yet. Employee organisations have been taxing payment of past pending DA installments and underage for a long time. Equal to reports, DA and DR dues of well-nigh Rs 14,191 crore in Punjab are moreover part of the dispute. A separate legal process is going on regarding this matter.
Did the employees' vociferation stop without the government's decision?
After the utterance of DA, there was a transpiration in the situation of the employees' vociferation which had been going on for well-nigh three weeks. Apart from the pending DA installments, the main demands of the employee organisations moreover included several other service-related issues. Without talks between the government and employee representatives, it was well-set to increase DA immediately, while it has been said that remoter talks will be unfurled on other demands.
Will there be remoter talks on other demands also?
Apart from DA, the employees moreover raised the old pension scheme, ACP and other pending demands in the meeting. The government is unpreventable to discuss these issues further. There is a possibility of flipside meeting between employee organisations and the government in the coming days. In this way, a major issue has been resolved immediately by the 8 percent DA increase, but the remaining demands of the employees are still pending discussion.
