CHANDIGARH: The protesting employees’ union representatives in Punjab on Friday met the committee of ministers to discuss their demands of enhancing the salary and allowances in the recently announced the Sixth Pay Commission and the state government is now likely to convey its decision in the next meeting scheduled on August 3.
Punjab Sanjha Mulajam Manch convener Sukhchain Singh Khaira said the committee of ministers had fixed the next date of meeting on August 3 in which the committee was expected to announce the state government’s final decision. He said the employees’ union representative on Friday had a meeting with the cabinet ministers Brahm Mohindra, Balbir Singh Sidhu and O P Soni and Sadhu Singh Dharamsot. Principal secretary of the finance department K A P Sinha and principal secretary of the personnel department Vivek Pratap Singh were also present in the meeting. After the announcement of the much delayed pay commission, employees have been protesting across the state demanding better rise in their basic salary and restoration of slashed allowances.
“Today we conveyed our demand that the state government should ensure the increase in the basic salary of employees in the pay commission by using the multiplication factor of 3.74. Whereas, the state government is presently using 2.25 as a multiplication factor,” said Khaira, adding that employees are hopeful after Friday’s meeting about a positive response from the government.
The employees’ union representatives also apprised the committee of ministers about their demand of an increase in allowances and to provide family pension facility even to those employees who have been recruited after 2004.
