End of government employees strike: 17% salary increase!
In response to the strike of the state government employees, the state government has increased the wages by 17 percent. The government employees, who accepted the government's order to increase their wages by 17%, finally withdrew their strike on Wednesday.
Soon after the government issued an order to increase the salary by 17%, the president of the employees union Shadakshari met the officials at Vidhansouda and got the order.
After voting at the office of the Government Employees Union in Cubbon Park, he said, "We have received the government's order to increase the salary of the employees by 17 percent. A strike was conducted to fulfill our demand. It is a government order. Through this our struggle is successful. He said that it was decided to call off the strike after the government agreed to their demand.
This order will come into effect from April 1 next month. It is estimated that due to the new order of salary hike, there is a possibility of an additional burden of Rs 6,000 crore on the government's exchequer.
6 thousand crores for additional salary of government employees in this budget. was reserved. But with the new order, the government will spend Rs 10,800 crore annually. Need to set aside. This is Rs 4,800 crore more than the government estimate. It is calculated that there will be an additional burden.