West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday hiked the dearness allowance (DA) for tell authorities staff and elevated the month-to-month honorariums for mosque muezzins and Hindu monks barely an hour forward of the Election Commission announced the assembly poll schedule.
“I’m happy to whine that our Ma-Mati-Manush authorities has delivered on its promise to all its staff and pensioners, and to lakhs of teachers and non-instructing workforce of our academic institutions, as neatly as staff/pensioners of our loads of grant-in-help institutions adore panchayats, municipal bodies, loads of native bodies, and many others,” Banerjee wrote on X at 3:05 pm.
“They are going to begin receiving their ROPA 2009 DA arrears from March 2026 onwards as per the modalities detailed out in the notifications issued by our Finance Division,” she added.
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Though the finance division did no longer scenario an quick notification, Sangrami Joutha Mancha — the joint platform of various organisations representing tell staff, teachers and pensioners who receive been conducting an agitation for three years and receive moved the Supreme Court docket — welcomed the announcement.
The Supreme Court docket only in the near past handed an elaborate of their favour, stating that their DA must match the suggestions of the seventh Pay Commission.
Bharatiya Janata Social gathering (BJP)’s Suvendu Adhikari, the leader of the opposition in the Bengal legislative assembly, called Banerjee’s announcement on revised DA a “decided closing-minute gimmick.”
“After years of looting the tell treasury and cheating them blind, that is your decided closing-minute poll gimmick?” Adhikari wrote on X.
“Now not a single paisa will truly be launched. Zero accountability, zero funds, zero delivery – handiest empty notifications from your Finance Division to fool the participants one closing time. Traditional TMC election drama. West Bengal is gazing. This time the laughable story is on you Mamata Banerjee….” he added.
Addressing a rally in Bengal on March 2, Union House Minister Amit Shah acknowledged, “Authorities staff all over India receive salaries suggested by the seventh Pay Commission. Handiest Bengal authorities staff are unruffled below the sixth Pay Commission. Whereas you help us score, the seventh Pay Commission will be enforced right here in forty five days.”
Convenor of the Sangrami Joutha Mancha Bhaskar Ghosh acknowledged, “Right here’s a essential victory for us. It proves that an organised agitation can raise any authorities correct down to its knees.”
Earlier than asserting the revised DA, Banerjee also announced revised month-to-month honorariums for muezzins of mosques and Hindu monks, from ₹1,500 to ₹2,000.
“I’m happy to whine an kind bigger of ₹500 in the month-to-month honorariums extended to our purohits and muezzins, whose service sustains the spiritual and social life of our communities. With this revision, they’ll now receive ₹2,000 month-to-month,” Banerjee wrote on X at 2:40 pm.
“At the same time, all novel capabilities which receive been duly submitted by purohits and muezzins receive also been approved by the Relate Authorities. We profit from nurturing an atmosphere where every neighborhood and each custom is valued and strengthened. Our endeavour stays to kind definite that the custodians of our rich spiritual heritage receive the reputation and strengthen they deserve,” she added.
Bharatiya Janata Social gathering’s Bengal unit president Samik Bhattacharya acknowledged the hiked honorarium for muezzins and monks, which that they had been traumatic, is no longer going to receive an impression on the outcomes of the arriving polls.
“A authorities is customarily free to relief participants in need. We wouldn’t bid a discover if she had hiked the honorariums to ₹3,000. Nonetheless on the tip of the day these won’t receive an impression on the outcomes of the polls. It has already been decided,” Bhattacharya acknowledged.
Banerjee announced a month-to-month honorarium of ₹1,000 and properties for monks, most of whom are Brahmins, for the first time in 2020. It precipitated a debate, with the Congress, Left and BJP calling it a dawdle to stable Hindu votes forward of the 2021 assembly polls.
Banerjee swept that election, a hit 215 of 294 seats whereas the BJP secured 75. The Left and Congress would possibly perchance no longer score any seat for the first time since Independence. The allowance for monks used to be later elevated to ₹1,500.
In 2012, a yr after ousting the 34-yr-worn Left Front authorities, Banerjee announced a month-to-month honorarium of ₹2,500 for the imams (head clerics) of all mosques. This precipitated a row, with Hindu monks traumatic a same intention.
