STATE TIMES NEWS
Jammu: The Jammu and Kashmir government on Saturday announced to release part of salary for November to all non- gazetted and Class-IV employees in advance in cash.
“To address the inconvenience faced by employees and general public due to demonetisation, the state government has announced to release part salary for the month of November to all non-gazetted and class-IV employees in advance and in cash,” an official spokesman said.
The decision was taken in a meeting that reviewed the inconvenience faced by employees and general public due to demonetisation and subsequent directions were passed by Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti, he said.
Giving details, State Finance Minister Haseeb Drabu said, “As per directions of the Chief Minister, Rs 10,000 out of the salary for the month of November will be paid in cash by November 24 to all the non-gazetted employees of the state government.”
“Due to demonetisation of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 currency notes, there has been acute shortage of notes in circulation resulting in inconvenience to cross-sections of society and in particular, lower income sections including non-gazetted and Class-IV employees,” he said.
Employees who do not wish to receive the cash pay of the part salary in advance may give their option in the prescribed proforma to their respective Drawing and Disbursing officer by November 22, the Minister informed.
“In that case, their salary will be credited to their account on the last working day of November, as usual,” he said, adding in case no option is received by the said date, it will be presumed that the employee has opted for cash pay-out and the payment there-off will be disbursed in cash accordingly.
Residual part of their salary payable for the month of November will be released as per the existing procedure, he said.
The Finance Minister expressed hope that the move will mitigate the inconvenience of employees to some extent as they will not be forced to queue-up at banks and thereby rush at the bank branches will also be reduced.
