Lucknow: Yogi Government has given a gift to the employees of Uttar Pradesh. The move has paved the way for state employees to get the benefit of salary increase the day after retirement. The Finance Department issued a government order in this regard. The proposal of the Finance Ministry was approved in the cabinet meeting.
These employees will come under the purview of the order
In the government order issued by Additional Chief Secretary of the Finance Department Deepak Kumar, it has been said that the system of salary increase has been implemented in the order of the recommendations of the Pay Committee Uttar Pradesh (2008) effective from January 1, 2006. Therefore, those employees will also come under the purview of this order who retired after July 1, 2006 but before the government order was issued. They will get this benefit from then but will not get arrears. This arrangement will also be applicable to employees who retired after 1st January 2016 but before the date of issuance of the government order. They have retired on 30th June or 31st December of the respective year and their increment was due on 1st July and 1st January.
The decision was taken in the cabinet
Finance Minister Suresh Khanna had announced this after the cabinet meeting on Tuesday. As per the recommendations of the Sixth Pay Commission, the annual increment of employees was done on 1st July every year. As per the recommendations of the Seventh Pay Commission, the annual increment was implemented from 1st January 2016. After this, the employees were given the option to choose the date of increment as 1st July and 1st January.
It may be noted that in various petitions filed in this regard in Madras High Court, Karnataka High Court and Allahabad High Court, orders have been given to give the next increment to the retired employees on 30th June. At the same time, the Supreme Court has rejected SLP many times in similar cases. The Supreme Court had also given an order in this matter, under which judicial officers were given the benefit of salary hike on 1 January or 1 July after retirement.
If the salary hike of state government employees retiring on 30 June and 31 December was on 1 July and 31 December, then they would not get the benefit in the form of pension and gratuity. After this, it was decided to implement it on state employees as well. Now, if the salary hike is scheduled on 1 July and 1 January, the day after retirement, the pension of such personnel will be calculated by adding one salary hike.
