7th pay commission implemented in over 5,000 grant-able schools in Gujarat

Gandhinagar: Gujarat Government today decided to implement the recommendations of seventh pay commission for over 70000 teaching and non-teaching staffs of 5300 grant-able high schools in the state.

Dy CM Nitin Patel said that the decision has been taken to implement it from the retrospective effect of January 1, 2016.

The salary as per 7 th pay commission however would be paid from August 1, 2017. The arrears from the period between January 1, 2016 and August 1, 2017 would be paid in five installments later.

The decision would put an additional annual burden of Rs 665 crores on the state exchequer, he said.

Patel said that the seventh pay commission would also be implemented in grant-able boards, corporations and other institutions in phased manner.

Notably the state government had announced the implementation of seventh pay commission from the back date of January 1, 2016 for its over 8 lakh employees and pensioners in August last year.

The same for self sustaining 33 board/corporations was announced in May this year. 92 thousand employees of these body benefited from it.

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