No cut in salary, pension of govt employees: Nitin Patel

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Gandhinagar:1.5.2020

Deputy chief minister Nitin Patel said on Thursday that despite a major fall in the state government’s income from VAT, GST and other taxes, the government will not deduct any amount from the salaries and pensions of government employees.

Patel in a statement said that industrial and commercial activity has come to a standstill because of the lockdown and this has badly impacted government income from GST, VAT and other sources. “Despite this constraint, the government has planned to pay salary and pension to all government employees according to the monthly salary schedule. A total of 5.38 lakh employees will get around Rs 2,600 crore in the form of salary while 4.57 lakh pensioners will get Rs 1,400 crore as pension. A sum of Rs 4,000 crore will be paid in a week,” Patel said.

Although the state government has cancelled all events to mark the Gujarat Foundation Day, chief minister Vijay Rupani wished all citizens on the 60th Foundation Day.