Finance Minister T.M. Thomas Isaac said here on
Saturday that the new wage structure for more than 5.5 lakh-odd government
employees including teachers in the State would come into effect from April 1,
2011.
Inaugurating a seminar on “Development of
Kerala and economic structure of the State “ organized by the NGO Association in
connection with its 36th State conference, Dr. Isaac said that the Pay Revision
Commission would submit the wage recommendations to the government in the first
week of December.
The Finance Department would complete all formalities for the
implementation of the new salary by the second week of January. Subsequently the
Accountant General would look into the feasibility of these recommendations, he
said.
The government would take a final decision on
the recommendations and announce the new wage scale in the third week of
February.
Already the Finance Department had held talks with various
organizations in this regard. The pay structure of the Central government
employees and other public sector units would be referred.
There would also be a
Cabinet sub committee to look into the issue, Dr. Isaac said.
The Minister said that the government would
provide maximum benefit to the employees but within the economic constraints of
the State. Nearly 65 per cent of the existing dearness allowance (DA) from July
1, 2004 to July 1, 2009 will be merged with the basic pay of the pay revision.
(As of now the employees get a DA of 78 per
cent of the basic pay. A 17 per cent announced by the Centre is also due to
them. The new DA of pay revision would be determined by the Finance Department
later).
The employees would get the arrears of revised
salary from July 1, 2009. This was because the existing wage scale came into
effect from July 1, 2004 and the salary structure could be renewed once in five
years, Dr. Isaac said.
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