GUWAHATI: The association of state government employees has asked the ruling Congress on Saturday to not to make false claims and misguide voters, saying that the group's salary was brought at par with Central government employees during the party's rule.
"We do not want voters to be fooled by wrong statesments on our salary hike. Our salaries are not at par with the Central government employees," said Manmohan Rajbongshi, secretary of State Employees Joint Action Committee Assam (SEJACA).
The employees' association alleged that the ruling party has been campaigning in many constituencies claiming that it has brought salaries of state government employees at par with that of the salaries of Central government workers. According to the association, the state government employees have been paid the lowest in comparison to government employee salaries of other states in the country.
"We are paid the lowest in the country. Our salaries are even lower than the salary paid to state government employees of our neighbouring northeastern states," said Jogen Gayan, another leader of the employees association.
"According to pay band 1, a central government employee draws a salary between Rs 5,200 to Rs 20,200 while a state government employee draws an amount between Rs 4,560 to Rs 15,000. In pay band 2, 3,4 and 5 also huge differences appear in pay structure," said Rajbongshi.
According to data provided by SEJACA, there was wide differences in allowances granted to state government employees and their central government counterparts. "There is no compensatory allowance, transportation allowance, special duty allowance for the state government employees while a central government enjoys a minimum Rs 320 as their compensatory allowance, and several other allowances in every month," stated a press release of SEJACA.
The association also criticized the role played by Basab Kalita, a leader of another employees' association, who have been reportedly campaigning for the ruling party in several meetings. "It is sad that one of the leaders of state employees' association is openly campaigning for the ruling party. He has turned the association into a Congress aided group," said Jogen Gayan.
Source;timesofindia
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