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Central employees are given many benefits apart from salary. There is also a provision for incentives. The amount of one of these incentives has been increased to 5 times
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Every year the salary of central employees increases in the form of dearness allowance. Apart from this, they benefit promotion and other perks as well. If an employee earns a higher degree while doing a job, then he will now get the benefit of this degree separately. The central government has increased the incentive amount up to 5 times for the employees who have achieved higher degrees. Under this, the incentive amount for employees with higher degrees like PhD has been increased from Rs.10,000 to Rs. 30,000.
The Ministry of Personnel has amended the 20-years-old rules to increase the incentive amount for employees pursuing higher degrees. Under the old rules, till now, employees who achieved higher degrees during the job were given a lump sum incentive of Rs. 2000 to Rs. 10,000. But after the amendment, from the year 2019, this incentive amount was increased from minimum Rs. 2000 to Rs. 10,000. That is, now employees will get more incentive allowance on achieving higher degree.
According to the circular issued by the Ministry of Personnel, Rs. 10,000 will be given as incentive for doing diploma of 3 years or less, Rs. 15000 will be given for doing degree or diploma of more than 3 years. 1 year or less Rs. 20,000 will be given for doing postgraduate degree/diploma. At the same time, Rs. 25,000 will be given to the employees taking postgraduate degree/diploma of more than 1 year duration. At the same time, an incentive of Rs. 30,000 will be given to those who have completed PhD or equivalent qualification.
In its instructions, the Personnel Ministry has made it clear that no incentive will be given for pure academic education or acquiring higher qualifications in literary subjects. The degree/diploma obtained by the employee should be related to the post of the employee or this degree should be related to the work being done in his next post. It clearly states that there should be a direct relationship between ability and work. These changes are effective from the year 2019.