Last Updated: March 03, 2023, 23:55 IST
Sukhu stated the choice has been taken after making mandatory amendments within the guidelines. (News18)
The Himachal cupboard, which was presided by Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu, gave its nod to the implementation of the OPS which might put a burden of Rs 1,000-crore on the state exchequer, it stated.
The Himachal Pradesh authorities on Friday determined to implement the Old Pension Scheme (OPS) from April 1 within the state, in accordance to an official assertion issued right here.
The Himachal cupboard, which was presided by Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu, gave its nod to the implementation of the OPS which might put a burden of Rs 1,000-crore on the state exchequer, it stated.
The cupboard additionally accredited the repealing of Himachal Pradesh Loktantra Prahari Samman Adhiniyam, 2021, and Himachal Pradesh Loktantra Prahari Samman Niyam, 2022, offering a month-to-month pension of Rs 11,000 per 30 days to individuals who have been jailed through the Emergency, it stated.
The cupboard determined that the staff will even be introduced beneath the ambit of General Provident fund (GPF), the assertion stated.
The workers beneath the New Pension Scheme (NPS), who’ve retired after May 15, 2003, can be given OPS from the possible date. The choice would put a burden of Rs 1,000-crore on the state exchequer throughout 2023-24 monetary 12 months, it added.
Sukhu stated the choice has been taken after making mandatory amendments within the guidelines.
The contribution in the direction of NPS by the federal government and the staff would cease from April 1, 2023. If any worker desires to go for NPS, he/she can provide the consent to the federal government, he stated. Â The cupboard has handed a decision, asking the Union authorities to return an quantity of Rs 8,000 crore beneath the NPS to the state and requested the state Finance division to amend the foundations and situation mandatory directions on this regard, the assertion stated.
In one other essential choice, the cupboard determined to interact 780 ASHA employees beneath National Health Mission (NHM) on an incentive foundation to present reasonably priced and dependable healthcare to the individuals, it stated.
It additionally gave its nod to the rules for the engagement of ASHA facilitators beneath the Community Process Programme in NHM.
The Cabinet determined to switch Rs 600 per scholar to all women, Schedule Caste (SC), Schedule Tribe (ST) and Below Poverty Line (BPL) boys of class 1 to 8 by means of Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT), in lieu of offering them free faculty uniforms, benefitting about 3.70 lakh college students within the state, the assertion stated.
The Cabinet accredited leasing out toll boundaries beneath Himachal Pradesh Tolls Act, 1975, by means of auction-cum tender course of for 2023-24.
Approval was additionally accorded to rationalize the engineering employees of the Forest division whereas the companies of 26 engineering employees could be absorbed into Public Works Department, Jal Shakti Vibhag, HP State Industrial Development Corporation, HP State Electricity Board and HP Power Corporation Ltd, it stated.
The Cabinet additionally accredited merger of “excise civil areas” from Yol Khas Cantonment Board with the adjoining Gram Panchayats Rakkar, Baghni, Tangorti Khas and Narwana Khas.
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