Windfall for PCMC employees

The employees will be getting the arrears from January 1, 1996, for which a provision of Rs seven crore has been made in this year8217;s budget, Thakur said. The arrears will be paid in cash. With the implementation of the Fifth Pay Commission, the expenditure on civic establishment will rise from 27 per cent to 32 per cent in the annual budget.

The work of pay fixation of employees is to completed by the end of this month. The employees stand to get a salary hike ranging from Rs 1,000 to Rs 3,000 after the fixation of the new pay scales.

However, about 60 employees appointed on posts which are yet to get approval from the State Government will not get the benefit of the Fifth Pay Commission recommendations.

Thakur pointed out that there was an anomaly in fixation of pay scales for surveyors. A three member committee comprising the chief auditor, assistant commissioner and additional legal advisor will examine the matter and submit the report within the next seven days.

The salary restructuring committee comprising eleven civic officials has made a total of 18 recommendations encompassing matters related to the salaries of almost all the civic departments. PCMC is the first municipal body in Pune region to implement the recommendations of the fifth pay commission.