2024-07-12 20:40:00
Patna: In the Bihar Cabinet meeting held on Friday, the dearness allowance of employees working under the sixth pay scale and pensioners was increased. A total of 48 agendas were approved in this meeting chaired by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. Additional Chief Secretary Dr. S. Siddhartha told that in the Cabinet meeting, the proposal for dearness allowance of 239 percent instead of 230 percent to the state government servants, pensioners, family pensioners receiving salary and pension under the sixth pay scale was approved.
Dearness allowance increased
Whereas, the state government servants, pensioners, family pensioners receiving the fifth pay scale were approved 443 percent dearness allowance instead of 427 percent. This will come into effect from April 1, 2024. In the meeting, the proposal to create 338 academic posts for Computer Science and Engineering course in 34 government engineering colleges operating in the state was approved. These include 28 posts of professor, 71 posts of associate professor and 239 posts of assistant professor.
13 allowances will increase with DA, bumper effect will be seen on salary, central employees are happy!
The employees are in trouble
Similarly, 203 teaching posts were approved for civil engineering courses in 31 government polytechnic and government women polytechnic institutes. In the meeting, the Bihar government decided to create 130 posts of drawing instructor and 137 posts of group instructor under the labor resources department. In-principle approval was also given in the meeting to make and develop 31 districts of Bihar as industrial areas.
Approval for 400 buses
In the cabinet meeting, approval of Rs 1,032 crore was given in view of the previously approved PM e-bus service for the arrangement of 400 buses for Patna, Muzaffarpur, Gaya, Bhagalpur, Darbhanga and Purnia cities. In the meeting, the contract period of 3,257 retired soldiers of the Indian Army reinstated in the Special Auxiliary Police Force constituted under Bihar Police was extended till 2025.