Good news! Government employees to get higher pay scale; up to 15% salary hike

Select employees will receive the benefit on the completion of two years of regular service.

New Delhi: In what could be good news for Himachal Pradesh government employees, the state’s chief minister Jai Ram Thakur has announced that employees working prior to January 3 and who were deprived of a higher pay scale would get salaries on a par with others. 

Such employees will receive the benefit on the completion of two years of regular service, Thakur said on Sunday (April 3). The move has been announced ahead of the state assembly polls. 

The Chief Minister said that most of the government employees have been given revised pay scales and on average, every employee has received the benefit of a 12 to 15 per cent hike in their salaries.

Meanwhile, the state government has also increased the pension of about 1.50 lakh pensioners in the state. The state government has provided benefits worth Rs 7,801 crore to government employees and pensioners in years between 2018 and 2022. 

Himachal Pradesh state employees who retired before 2016 are now receiving the benefit of a 15 to 20% hike in pension. On the other hand, about 40,000 employees who retired after 2016 would be benefited soon.