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The Kerala authorities has issued orders appointing the 12th Pay Revision Commission for submitting recommendations for the wage revision of authorities employees.
Former Chief Secretary V.P. Joy is the president of the commission.
It has arsenic its members advocator M. Rajagopalan Nair and retired Additional Secretary Sreelatha Sukumaran. Finance Minister K.N. Balagopal had announced the 12th Pay Commission successful the State Budget 2026-27, which was presented successful the Kerala Assembly connected January 29.
The committee has been asked to taxable its study wrong 3 months, Mr. Balagopal said connected Monday.
The recommendations volition beryllium implemented successful a timely manner, helium said. The authorities volition contented peculiar orders connected the presumption of notation of the commission. Finance section further caput V.R. Shobha volition enactment arsenic the caput of the commission.
Mr. Balagopal, successful his Budget speech, had stated that “it has ever been the argumentation of the Left governments to travel the five-year principle” regarding wage revision of authorities employees.
Employees’ organisations person been pressuring the authorities to acceptable up the committee for immoderate clip now. The State authorities had incurred an further liability of ₹25,000 crore successful implementing the erstwhile revision.
The announcement besides comes up of the Assembly elections successful Kerala.
The 11th Kerala Pay Revision Commission, headed by K. Mohandas, which had fixed the minimum basal wage of State authorities employees and teachers astatine ₹23,000 and the maximum astatine ₹1,66,800, recommended that the status property of State authorities employees beryllium enhanced by 1 twelvemonth to 57. Other recommendations had included a connection for a five-day week for authorities offices and abrogation of compassionate employment strategy by offering amended fiscal benefits to the kin of employees who dice successful harness.
