DW BUREAU / Chandigarh

Haryana Finance Minister Capt Abhimanyu said the Finance Department on Thursday issued notifications revising allowances in various categories. The revision of allowances would be on the basis of recommendations of 7th Central Pay Commission, effective from May 1, 2018, he said in an official release.

Abhimanyu said that now the state government has revised the existing rate of Children Education Allowance to Rs 1,125 from 750 per month per eligible child, limited to first two children. “The state government has introduced Special Allowance for Child Care to differently-abled female government employees.

The allowance would be given on the basis of the recommendations of 7th CPC and recommendations of Allowance Revision Committee,” he said.

He said that the conditions of Allowance Revision Committee included the rate of special allowance of Rs 1,500 per month per child. This allowance would be admissible to all the female government employees with 40 per cent disability and above as certified by an authority entitled to issue such a certificate.

It would be paid to a maximum of two eldest surviving children and it would be admissible for two years only.

This allowance would be applicable to disable female employees being mothers of children who are either young or with disability. It could be claimed from the time of birth of such a child till he or she attains the age of two years.

The minister said that the state government has also revised the existing rates of non-practising allowance at the rate of 20 per cent of pay in pay matrix in the revised pay structure to the doctors working in the Health Department, Animal Husbandry and Dairy Development Department and Ayush Department.

The government employee posted against a clinical post and actually working against such a post alone and posted against a whole time post alone, is eligible to draw this allowance, he said. Abhimanyu said that the government employee in whose case, there is ample scope of undertaking private practice alone is eligible to draw this allowance.

(editor@dailyworld.in)