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 …
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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…
Kolkata, Feb 5 (IANS) The Supreme Court will on Thursday deliver the verdict on pleas, including the one filed by the West Bengal government against the Calcutta High Court 2022 order, asking the state government to pay Dearness Allowance at par with that of central government employees and also to release arrears on this count since July 2009.The verdict will be delivered by the apex court’s Division Bench of Justice Sanjay Karol and Justice Prashant Kumar Mishra today.The hearing in the matt…
New Delhi, Jan 31 (IANS) Over 1.1 crore central government employees and pensioners look for cues from Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s Union Budget 2026-27 speech on Sunday, for any sign of an accelerated rollout of the 8th Pay Commission.However, the full implementation of salary and pension hikes in FY27 remains unlikely.On the Budget Day, only three months are over since the formal constitution of 8th Pay Commission. “The panel has been given an 18-month deadline to submit its report,…
Hyderabad, Jan 12 (IANS) Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy announced on Monday that the state government will soon appoint a Commission headed by a retired High Court or Supreme Court judge for the reorganisation of districts. He said that in view of the growing demands related to the reorganisation of mandals, revenue divisions and districts, a Commission comprising experts from different fields and senior officials, under the leadership of a retired judge, will soon be appointed.The Co…
Chennai, Jan 3 (IANS) Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin on Saturday announced the implementation of a new Tamil Nadu Assured Pension Scheme (TNAPS) for State government employees and teachers, a move expected to impose an additional annual financial burden of around Rs 11,000 crore on the State exchequer. The announcement comes against the backdrop of long-standing demands by government employees and teachers for the restoration of the Old Pension Scheme (OPS).Ahead of the 2021 Assembly elec…