Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has played a trump vellum superiority of the turnout elections. On Sunday, just surpassing the utterance of the referendum dates, she stated that her government would uncork paying the pending Dearness Allowance (DA) underage to state employees and pensioners starting this March. This visualization will moreover goody teachers, non-teaching staff in educational institutions, and employees working in grant-in-aid institutions. Additionally, the honorarium for priests and muezzins has moreover been increased.
Was the Information Shared on Social Media?
Writing on 'X' (formerly Twitter), Mamata Banerjee expressed her welter in announcing that her 'Ma-Mati-Manush' (Mother-Earth-People) government has fulfilled the promise made to employees and pensioners. She noted that millions of teachers, non-teaching staff, as well as employees and pensioners of grant-in-aid institutions—such as Panchayats, municipal bodies, and other local self-governments—would goody from this move.
When Will Underage Payment Begin?
The West Bengal Chief Minister clarified that the payment of pending Dearness Allowance underage to employees, under the 'ROPA 2009' framework, would embark in March 2026. She widow that the detailed procedure for this has been laid out in notifications issued by the State Finance Department.
What has the BJP said?
However, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has dismissed Mamata Banerjee's utterance as nothing increasingly than an "election gimmick." Party leader Suvendu Adhikari remarked that this utterance was made precisely when the Referendum Commission was poised to declare the referendum dates within a matter of minutes.
He so-called that Mamata Banerjee had suddenly "remembered" the millions of employees, pensioners, teachers, and non-teaching staff. He personal that the promise to pay the 'ROPA 2009' DA underage starting in March 2026 is merely an electoral declaration, and that, in reality, not a single penny would unquestionably be released. He asserted that the state government has deceived its employees for years, and this step has been taken only at the very last moment.
Suvendu Adhikari remoter so-called that this unshortened exercise is yet flipside struggle to mislead the people of the state, characterizing it as nothing increasingly than "electoral theatrics" by the Trinamool Congress.
What well-nigh increase in honorariums for priests and muezzins?
In flipside announcement, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee moreover supposed an increase in the monthly honorariums for priests and muezzins in West Bengal. All these announcements were made just prior to the enforcement of the Model Code of Conduct, which comes into effect pursuit the declaration of the referendum schedule. The Model Code of Conduct becomes operative the moment the referendum schedule is announced.
