Gandhinagar: The Election Commission (EC) has cleared the request of the Gujarat government to start giving pension to retired state employees in accordance with Central government’s sixth pay commission recommendations.
The move will benefit nearly 3.13 lakh pensioners, even as it puts an extra Rs 650 crore burden on the state coffers. The government had to approach the EC as it failed to issue a government resolution (GR) for implementing the sixth pay panel for the state’s pensioners before the electoral code of conduct came into force. In a marked contrast, it promptly issued a GR for state employees. BJP was on tenterhooks, as failure to implement new pension scales would have meant a setback during the forthcoming polls.
Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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