THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: In a bid to woo the government employees ahead of the elections, the state cabinet on Wednesday approved the recommendations of the 11th pay revision commission and decided to bring into effect the revised pay and allowances from April 1.
A detailed order will be issued regarding the scale, career advancement schemes, etc, recommended by the pay commission for all sectors, except in health sector, on the basis of the report of a committee convened by additional chief secretary (finance) R K Singh.
The commission had recommended the minimum salary of government employees as Rs 23,000 and the maximum as Rs 1,66,800. The revised dearness allowance will have a retrospective effect from July 1, 2019 and the allowances will be effective from March1, 2021. Regarding increments, the commission recommended a minimum of Rs 700 and the maximum as Rs 3,400. The revision of pensions will likely be discussed in the next cabinet meeting.
The cabinet decided to extend the validity of the PSC rank lists by six months. All rank lists that will expire between February 3 and August 2 this year will have a uniform expiry date of August 3. Even as the validity of the rank lists was extended, the government on the other hand decided to regularize 115 contract employees in C-DIT.
In yet another major decision, the cabinet decided to include all sub-categories of Nadar community under the other backward classes (OBC) category. Earlier, only Hindu Nadars and SIUC Nadars were included in the OBC list.
The cabinet also decided to recommend the governor to promulgate an ordinance for setting up a welfare board for the employees of rural and urban employment guarantee schemes.