The Hindu : Bonus, festival allowance sanctioned

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Tuesday, Aug 26, 2003

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Bonus, festival allowance sanctioned

By Our Special Correspondent

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM AUG. 25. The Government has issued orders sanctioning bonus or special festival allowance to Government employees in connection with Onam.

Every employee, whose gross pay was Rs. 5000 or less a month as on March 31, 2003, will be eligible for a bonus of Rs. 2,500. Others will get a festival allowance of Rs. 1,000 each.

The gross pay for this purpose will be calculated adding basic pay, personal pay, special pay, special allowance, personal allowance and 38 per cent of basic pay as dearness allowance.

Under the old scales of pay, the limit will be Rs. 4,200 a month.

The employee should have been in employment as on March 31, 2003, and should have put in a minimum service of six months during the financial year to be eligible for the bonus.

Eligible staff will include permanent NMR workers, seasonal workers and temporary workers with a minimum service of six months, employees who joined permanent service through PSC, part-time teachers and employees of the Education Department (on regular scale) and those on deputation to public sector undertakings, corporations and boards.

Ministers, Speaker, Deputy Speaker, Leader of the Opposition and the Chief Whip and their personal staff, employees joining service up to Fourth Onam through the PSC, reappointed pensioners, contract employees, teaching and non-teaching staff of Anglo-Indian schools (not covered under the direct payment scheme), employees of the Sri Chitra Home, honorary physicians of Government ayurveda colleges, chainmen of the Revenue Department receiving daily wages, permanent workers of Government departments, full-time and contingent employees of Government departments, local self-governments, contract workers of the Kerala House, New Delhi, editors and reporters of the Indian Law Reports are among those eligible for special festival allowance.

Full-time contingent workers of Government departments and local self-governments can chose either bonus or festival allowance.

Besides, employees drawing monthly pay of up to Rs. 10,000 will be eligible for a festival advance of Rs. 400.

This would be deducted from salary in five equal instalments.

Daily wage earners who were in service before September 7 and those who continue in service up to September 10 and casual labourers, CLR workers and AHARDS volunteers who have worked for at least a month under Government and local self-governments or in Government farms within a year before Onam will also be eligible for festival allowance of Rs. 400.

The patient employees of leprosy sanitoria will receive Rs. 325 each as festival allowance while the balawadi and anganwadi teachers and workers of social welfare, rural development and scheduled castes and scheduled tribes development will get Rs. 425 each.

The allowance will be Rs. 375 for helpers and ayahs of anganwadis and balawadis.

The advance will be disbursed from September 2.

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