7th Pay Commission: Local bodies staff to get pay hike

Neena Sharma

Tribune News Service 

Dehradun, November 23 

Employees of the 92 local bodies will get their salary as per the recommendations of the Seventh Pay Commission. 

While addressing mediapersons here today, Urban Development Minister Madan Kaushik said, “We have issued orders for 20 local bodies, while the orders for the remaining 72 local bodies will be issued later today or tomorrow.”

The minister said the delay was caused due to technicalities involved in the constitution of 20 new local bodies. “As the newly formed local bodies did not have elected representatives, there was a question of who would forward the proposal. It was finally brought forth by District Magistrates,” said Madan Kaushik. 

He further said the process of delimitation of 29 local bodies had been completed and the last publication was being awaited, adding the last publication for the 46 urban local bodies would be issued tomorrow. “Due to some last minute changes the proposal for the expansion of boundaries of local bodies in Dehradun, Haldwani, Shivalik Nagar and Lal Kuaon would be brought before the Cabinet again,” he said.

He said that the entire process of publication of notifications for the local bodies would be completed within a week. “We will then be left with the work of delimitation of wards,” he said. 

The swiftness with which the state government has completed the process of delimitation and its last publication has led to speculation about an early election to the 92 local bodies otherwise due to be held in April.