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Pay revision for Nagaland govt employees from April

Kohima:  The Nagaland government has made it clear that the new pay scale under the Revision of Pay (RoP) will be implemented for the state government employees with effect from April 1, 2010, keeping the gap of ten years between two pay revisions in the state.

Nagaland Chief Secretary Lalthara, in a notification yesterday, explained that the state does not have its own resources to implement the new pay scale, but was willing to consider the new Central pay scale to its employees even before expiry of the ten year gap period, provided the Centre gave financial assistance for the purpose.

He informed that the Union Finance Ministry has expressed its inability to extend such financial support to any state government to meet additional expenses of pay revision.

The notification, however, said due to strong and persistent pressure by the Nagaland government at the highest level for such special grant, the Planning Commission, in consultation with the Union Finance Ministry, offered to pay Rs 400 crore to the state as Advance Plan Assistance to be recovered from the normal plan assistance of the state in the subsequent years.

But the state government decided not to avail this Advance Plan Assistance as 90 per cent of the population of Nagaland, who were not government employees, cannot be deprived of their due share of development funds by diverting them for implementation of the new pay scale for the state employees.

The notification clarified that as per convention already adopted all over India, new RoP Rules were implemented at an interval of ten years, which was due in the state for April 1.