By IANS,
Bhopal : The Madhya Pradesh government Tuesday decided to grant benefits of the Sixth Pay Commission to its more than 450,000 employees from September, an official statement said.
The decision to hike the pay of state government employees was taken at a cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan late Tuesday evening, the statement said.
The cabinet decided that 20 percent interim relief would be given to the employees from this month.
The implementation of the pay commission recommendations will benefit more than 450,000 state employees who would, on an average, see a hike of roughly 30 percent. Pensioners would also come under its purview, said the statement.
Various state employees’ unions have been demanding implementation of the Sixth Pay Commission recommendations ever since the central government approved the new pay scales Aug 14 for its five million employees.