The Hindu Business Line : Haryana to revise co-op sugar mills staff pay

THE Haryana Government has decided to revise the pay scales and allowances of the employees of co-operative sugar mills from July 1, 2004, thus meeting their long-standing demand.

An official spokesman said that the decision to revise pay scales, variable dearness allowance (DA), house rent allowance (HRA) and retaining allowance had been approved by the Chief Minister, Mr Om Prakash Chautala.

The whole exercise involves a financial implication of about Rs 3.47 crore.

Variable DA would be given on percentage basis as against increase of Rs 2 per point increase in consumer price index in the existing pattern.

The DA would be 59 per cent as on July 1, 2004.

Thereafter, the increase in percentage of DA would be followed as announced by the Government for its employees.

The decision to revise the pay scales was taken on the basis of the recommendations made by the committee headed by the Town and Country Planning Minister to consider the demands of Haryana Sugar Mills Workers Federation.

The recommendations had also been accepted by the Sugar Mills Workers Federation.

An agreement for this has ben entered into with the Federation of Cooperative Sugar Mills, Haryana for a period of seven years that is up to June 30, 2011.

According to the revised pay scales, the unskilled workers willnow get a pay scale of Rs 2,750-4,300 and semi-skilled workers will be entitled to a pay scale of Rs 2,900-4,550.

In case of skilled-B and clerical-IV as well as skilled-A and clerical-III categories, the pay scale will be Rs 3,450-5,300.

The highly skilled and clerical-II employees will get a pay scale of Rs 3,750-5,700.

In case of supervisor-C and clerical-I employees, the revised pay scale would be Rs 4,000-5,975.

For supervisor-B, it will be Rs 4,500-6,675 and for supervisor-A, Rs 5,500-9,500.

The revised pay scales willbe admissible to the employees as per the provision of service rules.

He said that HRA would be given at the rate of five per cent to the employees of four sugar mills located in `A' class cities of Karnal, Sonipat, Panipat and Rohtak and for the remaining eight sugar mills, HRA would be given at the rate of four per cent of the basic pay.

However, no employee would get HRA less than the amount whatever he was getting at present.

The retaining allowance of unskilled seasonal employees will be increased from 20 per cent to 25 per cent and in the semi-skilled category, it will be raised from 30 per cent to 35 per cent.

There would be no change in the retaining allowance for other categories, which was 50 per cent at present.

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