No takers for half-pay, no-work offer in UP

8216;8216;Their posts will be kept vacant during the period of five years and even the seniority of the employees availing the scheme will be maintained. They will be taken back in all possibility,8217;8217; the government said. The government is anyway observing a total ban on fresh recruitments for the past several years.

Unfortunately for Chief Minister Mayawati, the response hasn8217;t been encouraging so far. None of the 12 lakh employees the state has has opted for the scheme for obvious apprehensions of losing the job. 8216;8216;There is no request for getting included into the scheme so far,8217;8217; said Secretariate Employees Union president T.N. Mishra.

The state government has to spent nearly Rs 1,000 crore every month on salaries and another Rs 180 crore on pensions. That adds up to nearly Rs 1,200 crore. There8217;s already a yawning gap of nearly Rs 4,000 crore between the revenue and expenditure.