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| Government pensioners to get 30% arrears |
| BS Reporter / Kolkata/ Bhubaneswar Sep 25, 2009, 00:55 IST |
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The Orissa government has decided to give 30 per cent of the arrears of the revised pension to the pensioners and family pensioners.
Forty per cent of the arrears, which arose due to the revision of pension from January 1, 2006, was paid in the last fiscal. The state finance department has come out with the required notifications in this regard.
The finance department has requested all secretaries, heads of departments and the collectors to take effective steps for drawing of 30 per cent of arrears out of the remaining 60 per cent arrears on account of the revision of pension. The government pensioners who were getting pension before and after 2006 will benefit from the decision.
This will put the pensioners on an equal footing with the government employees who will also be paid 30 per cent of the arrears of the revised pay scale.
According to the circular issued by the state finance department, all pension disbursing authorities including the public sector banks handling disbursement of pension and family pension to the state government pensioners have been intimated to disburse 30 per cent of such arrears by March 31, 2010.
However, the pension disbursing authorities will have to keep the required undertakings from the pensioners and the family pensioners to recover or adjust excess payment made.
It may be noted that the state government had revised the pension and family pension of the retired government employees from January 1, 2006.It was stipulated that 40 per cent of the arrears arising due to the revision will be paid in 2008-09 and the remaining 60 per cent of the arrears were to be paid in 2009-10.
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