Chennai: Ahead of Pongal (harvest festival)celebrations in the state, Tamil Nadu government on Sunday announced bonus of up to Rs 3,000 to C and D group employeesbesides a special bonus of Rs 1000 to A and B group employees.
While pensioners, family pensioners and former villageadministrative officers will get a Pongal gift of Rs 500for the year 2010-11, C and D group employees will get 30-daywages up to Rs 3,000, an official release said.
A special bonus of Rs 1,000 will be given to monthly payemployees who have worked for at least 240 days in a financialyear, employees with consolidated pay, nutritious meal workersbesides anganwadi and mini anganwadi workers of IntegratedChild Welfare Scheme.
Village assistants, workers of Panchayati Raj departmentgetting special time scale of pay, panchayat assistants,people welfare employees, contractual workers, temporarycontractual workers, daily wage workers and partial daily wageworkers will also get the special bonus of Rs 500, it said.
This bonus will be given to all teachers and officersworking in government aided institutions or institutions runby local bodies and come under scales of pay and other allIndia service conditions of UGC, All India Council forTechnical Education or Indian Council for AgriculturalResearch, it said.
This will cost the exchequer Rs 264 crore, it added. Pongal falls on January 15.
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