Ahead of Pongal, T.N. government announces bonuses, gifts for employees

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Ahead of the Pongal festival, the Tamil Nadu authorities announced bonuses for the twelvemonth 2024-25 and Pongal gifts for assorted categories of its employees, connected Thursday (January 1, 2026). The bonuses and gifts would payment implicit 9.90 lakh employees, with the exchequer incurring an expenditure of ₹183.86 crore, according to an authoritative release.

On the directions of Chief Minister M.K. Stalin, the State authorities announced a bonus (subject to a ceiling of ₹3,000) for ‘C’ and ‘D’ Group employees and teachers.

It besides announced peculiar advertisement hoc bonus of ₹1,000 for full- and part-time employees, paid from contingencies astatine fixed monthly rates, and employees connected consolidated pay/special time-scale of wage who person worked continuously for astatine slightest 240 days oregon much during the accounting twelvemonth 2024-2025.

It further announced a Pongal acquisition magnitude of ₹1,000 to pensioners who retired from the ‘C’ and ‘D’ Group categories, household pensioners, and erstwhile employees of colony establishments.

Published - January 01, 2026 02:52 p.m. IST

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