Bihar government approves pay scale change for nearly 13 lakh government servants

The Bihar cabinet on Tuesday gave its nod to revise the pay scale to its employees, pensioners and contractual government school teachers with effect from April 1, 2017.

The decision to grant the revised pay scale and pension will benefit around 3.65 lakh state government employees, 6 lakh pensioners and 3.6 lakh contractual government school teachers of the state, Cabinet Secretariat Department Principal Secretary Brajesh Mehrotra told reporters.

The state cabinet gave its nod in view of the recommendations of the State Pay Commission set up under the chairmanship of former Bihar chief secretary G S Kang, which submitted its report to Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Monday.

Giving details, principal secretary to the Finance Department Ravi Mittal said the cabinet decided that employees and pensioners would get notional benefit from January 1, 2016 while the financial benefit will accrue to them with effect from April 1, 2017.

This means that they will get increased salary with effect from April 1, 2017.

“There will be a raise of around 14-15 per cent,” Mittal said adding there would be financial burden of Rs 5000 crore financial burden on the state exchequer towards payment of the revised pay scale and pension.

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