Gujarat govt increases salaries of ATMA employees

Gandhinagar: The state government has decided to notably increase the salaries of the contract based employees working under the central government sponsored Support to State Extension Program For Extension Reform (ATMA) Scheme, informed state agriculture minister Raghavji Patel.

The central government has instructed the states to implement revised guidelines 2018 of ATMA after approving ATMA scheme’s modified guideline 2018 under sub-mission on agriculture extension under Krushi Unnati Yojna. The payment will be Rs 12000 annually instead of Rs 6000 annually for contingency cost of Khedut Mitra. The salary of Rs 30,000 instead of Rs 25000 will be paid to block technology managers and the monthly salary of Rs 20,000 instead of Rs 15000 will be paid to assistant technology managers.

The central government had made a provision of 10 % increment for contract based workforce under ATMA project in the latest guidelines. So, the state government approved the 10 % increment for the salaries of state coordinator, deputy director, deputy project director working under ATMA project on contractual basis. DeshGujarat