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Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S . Jagan Mohan Reddy has announced an increase in the retirement age of state government employees from 60 years to 62 years. He was speaking at the meeting with various Employee Unions at Amaravati yesterday. The Chief Minister also announced a fitment of 23 percent, when the new pay scales shall come into force from January 2022.
The monetary benefits will be applied from 1-4-2020 and the enhanced pay scale along with pending DAs will be effective from January 2022, he said. He added that the decision shall put an additional burden of Rs 10,247 crore on the State treasury. Also, all the pending arrears like PF, GLI, leave encashments will be cleared by April 2022. Considering employees’ experience as an asset to the state, the Chief Minister announced the decision to raise the retirement age from 60 years to 62 years to make better use of their services, which will be implemented from this January.
Further, the Chief Minister assured that jobs will be provided to family members of the employees who died of Covid-19, under compassionate grounds by the end of June. He also constituted a committee with the Chief Secretary to revamp the Employee Health Scheme (EHS) for better implementation and directed that the issues should be resolve within two weeks. For those employees working in the Village and Ward Secretariats, a revised pay scale will be given from July this year after the completion of probation and confirmation process by June 30.
He also announced to provide houses to those employees who don’t own a house by reserving 10 percent of the plots in MIG layouts in Jagananna Smart Townships and 20 percent rebate will be provided. The constituency will be treated as a unit and affirmed that no employee will be deprived of housing.