This Diwali has brought some good news for the Assam government employees. They will now get pay at par with their central government counterparts as the state government prepares to implement the sixth state pay commission report.
The report was submitted by commission’s chairman Bhaskar Barua on Thursday to Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi. Gogoi said that the Cabinet would soon take up the report and assured to revise the pay scales of the state government employees by this year.Gogoi said that the pay commission report would be able to meet the expectation of the officers and employees of the state.
The state government, said Gogoi, had already released Rs 3,382 crore to bear the extra expenses that would arise out of pay hike, and was in the process of making arrangements to bear the additional costs.
The sixth state pay commission was constituted on May 30, 2008. Though the commission was to submit its report within a year, the deadline had been extended twice later. Under pressure from the state government employees’ organisation, the government had earlier announced an interim benefit of 15 per cent to its employees.
