Disclosing this here today, Finance Minister Parminder Singh Dhindsa said that all the Heads of Departments, Commissioners of Divisions, District and Sessions Judges, Deputy Commissioners and Registrar, Punjab and Haryana High Court have been asked to promptly act in this regard.
Dhindsa said that the Punjab Government employees, who have yet not received the second instalments of their pay arrears from the period January one, 2006 to July 31, 2009, would now get their second instalment.
He said that the second instalment, which is released, would be 30 per cent of the total pay arrears and added that pay arrears were being released on the recommendation of Fifth Pay Commission.
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