Kolkata, March 4 (IANS) Sangrami Joutho Mancha (Joint Movement Forum), an umbrella body of various West Bengal Government employees’ associations, had called a total cease-work on March 13 to protest against the inaction of the state government in connection with the Dearness Allowance (DA) payable to them.According to the Joint Movement Forum, the state government is yet to abide by the order of the Supreme Court last month directing it to follow a step-by-step method to pay DA to state governm…
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Bhopal, March 2 (IANS) In yet another significant decision regarding state government employees on the occasion of Holi, the BJP-led Madhya Pradesh government on Monday announced that treasury officers will now also be allowed to hire vehicles during working hours. The government said in a statement late on Monday that Chief Minister Mohan Yadav has granted permission to extend the facility of hiring vehicles to all Treasury officers. A proposal regarding this was made by the treasury officer…
Thiruvananthapuram, Feb 21 (IANS) With Kerala gearing up for the upcoming Assembly elections and the CPI(M)-led Left Democratic Front (LDF) eyeing a rare third consecutive term under Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, a controversy has emerged over an alleged bulk message campaign targeting state government employees.R.S. Sasikumar, Chairman of the State United Confederation of Employees (SUCC), alleged that a message issued in the Chief Minister’s name was circulated widely to the personal What…
Kolkata, Feb 19 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party on Thursday criticised Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee over her government’s decision to create additional posts in the State Constituted Services.In a post on X, Amit Malviya, BJP’s IT Cell chief and the party’s central observer for West Bengal, alleged that the move was aimed at misleading state civil service officers.“The recent statement made by Mamata Banerjee regarding the creation of additional posts and revision of cadre schedules …
Kolkata, Feb 14 (IANS) An association of the state government employees in West Bengal has sent contempt of court notices to the Chief Secretary, Nandini Goswami and the State Finance Secretary, Prabhat Kumar Mishra for non-action in complying with the Supreme Court’s order earlier this month directing the government to pay 25 per cent of the Dearness Allowance (DA) arrears between 2008 and 2019 immediately and definitely by the end of the current financial year of 2025-26.On February 25, the …
Kolkata, Feb 11 (IANS) Union Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Bhupendra Yadav, on Wednesday said Mamata Banerjee is the only Indian Chief Minister who moved the Supreme Court against her state government employees to avoid paying dearness allowance at par with the central government employees and arrears accrued on it over years. “Mamata Banerjee is the only Indian Chief Minister who has approached the Apex Court against her own government employees. She had alleged that so ma…
Kolkata, Feb 8 (IANS) Members of the Joint Forum of State Government Employees on Sunday took to the streets in Kolkata to put pressure on the Mamata Banerjee government to release the 25 per cent pending Dearness Allowance (DA) in accordance with the Supreme Court verdict.The members held a procession from Subodh Mallick Square to Rani Rashmoni Road in central Kolkata. BJP MP Saumitra Khan also joined the procession to express his solidarity with the state government employees. The protesters a…
Kolkata, Feb 6 (IANS) The Supreme Court’s verdict directing the West Bengal government to pay Dearness Allowance (DA) arrears to the state government employees and pensioners for the period between 2008 and 2019 and also 25 per cent of that amount by March 31 this year, will cost the state exchequer a little over Rs 10,000 crore immediately and Rs 42,000 crore in the long run.”These figures are tentative. An exercise had started to figure out the actual expenditure on this count, and the final f…
Kolkata, Feb 5 (IANS) The joint forum of state government employees and also Opposition parties in West Bengal on Thursday welcomed the Supreme Court’s verdict on the Dearness Allowance (DA).Bhaskar Ghosh, convenor of the Join Forum of State Government Employees, hailed the verdict, saying it was an outcome of their relentless protest movements, demanding pending DA from the Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee government.”It is a victory for all state government employees who have been denied their l…
New Delhi, Feb 5 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Thursday held that West Bengal government employees are entitled to Dearness Allowance (DA) as a legally enforceable right under the statutory pay rules and directed the state government to pay arrears for the period between 2008 and 2019.While constituting a high-level committee to finalise a binding payment schedule, a Bench of Justices Sanjay Karol and Prashant Kumar Mishra partly upheld the 2022 Calcutta High Court judgment, which had ruled in fav…