Haryana announces to increase minimum wages of workers

Haryana government today announced to increase the monthly minimum wages of unskilled labourers from Rs 5,900 to Rs 7,600 and that of skilled labourers from Rs 6,536 to Rs 9,699.
Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar announced this while addressing a gathering here on the occasion of 'Haryana Day' today.
Besides, he also announced that Social Welfare Department would set up its centres at block and sub-divisional level so that the people do not have to visit the district headquarters to get themselves enrolled for various social security pension schemes.
'Haryana Day' is celebrated on November 1 to mark the creation of a state from the then joint Punjab in 1966.

Khattar announced that a new scheme of social audit would be implemented at village level to ensure transparency in the development works and keep a check on corruption.
Stressing that the state government was committed towards the welfare of government employees, he announced that their salaries could also be increased.

The Chief Minister claimed that during the previous government, the beneficiaries of various social security pensions did not get their pension on time.
"During an audit in Karnal alone, a scam of Rs five crore in the distribution of old age allowance had been unearthed," he said.
He said in order to streamline the pension distribution system, the present state government has decided to disburse the social security pensions through banks and post offices and in some cases through Business Correspondents of banks.

In a survey, about two lakh accounts of beneficaries in the State have been found to be fake and added that this would save Rs 24 crore of the government at the rate of Rs 1,200 per month.