According to Finance Minister Asim Dasgupta, the notification for the new commission will be issued in nearly 10 days. It will be the fifth such commission for the state government employees.
“The commission will be asked to finish its work as fast as possible. We will also demand the Centre to provide half the money needed to implement the revised pay scale,” Dasgupta said.
He added that the additional burden on state exchequers arising due to revision of pay scales will be on the agenda at the meeting of state finance ministers to be held in Delhi on August 29.
Various employees’ unions affiliated to the Opposition parties have rapped the state government’s decision to set up the commission.
“Nearly 20 states have declared that they would upgrade the pay scales of their employees at par with the Central government employees. Why is our government not doing so? It is sheer chicanery,” Samir Ranjan Majumder, president (Writers’ Buildings area) of West Bengal Government Employees’ Union, said.
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