Govt. staring at huge financial burden with release of DA instalments and new PRC
The state government faces significant financial pressure as employees demand the release of pending dearness allowance (DA) installments and revised pay scales. Official data shows a consistent rise in salary expenditure over the past several years.
Why it matters
Balancing public sector wage demands with fiscal responsibility is a major challenge for state governments managing limited budgets.
The State Government is staring at huge financial burden going by the rising demands from employees for release of pending instalments of the dearness allowance and implementation of the revised pay scales.
Employees staged a lunch hour demonstration at the Secretariat demanding release of five instalments of DA, implementation of old pension scheme and the pending pay revision. The State Government has spent ₹17,874 crore towards salaries or wages till July-end in the current fiscal as against the total expenditure of ₹48,358 crore budgeted for the year, according to the provisional information submitted to the Comptroller and Auditor General of India.
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