Finance Minister Ready To Revise The Pay Structure Of The Employees- TRIPURA

Finance Minister Ready To Revise The Pay Structure Of The Employees- TRIPURA

Finance Minister Bhanu Lal Saha today reiterated that the Left Front government is ready to revise the pay structure of the employees at the earliest with the limited resources of the state. The Tripura government had constituted a three-member pay review committee headed by former Chief Secretary G K Rao two weeks ago setting out a term to put forward a recommendation within 45 days after listening to the employees bodies and others. However, except CPI-M backed organisations none other turned out to meet the pay panel with their demand despite repeated request. The opposition parties warned that the review panel did not have any jurisdiction and unless 7th Central Pay Commission is implemented, they would move to court. Meanwhile, BJP state president Biplab Kumar Deb claimed that after next election in February 2018 if BJP led government comes in power, the employees would be given all benefits like a central government employee within three months. “The state government diverted the employee’s salary fund for past many years, which have been given by the Centre and unnecessarily put employees into financial hardship, which is clear in government documents,” alleged BJP president Deb. On the other hand, the finance minister said in a democratic system, employees’ bodies have right to submit or not to submit their views/ suggestions on the questionnaires of Pay and Pension Review Committee.

“The Committee has already received views/ suggestions on the questionnaires of the committee from an employees’ organization which is representing around 80 per cent of the total government staff. If any organization doesn’t want to do this let it be,” he said. If the committee’s recommendation goes beyond the upper limit of outlay, Mr Saha replied, “The government has already allocated Rs 600 crore for pay revision of employees and pensioners amidst severe financial constraint. The process is a long pending demand and the government wants to offer revised pay scales at the earliest”.