AGARTALA, July 23 (TIWN): When the entire state is hit with issue of state government begging for Rs 800 donation from its employees for filing in Supreme court against the decision of HC for clearing the 31 percent DA, Education minister Tapan Chakraborty termed the entire issue as ‘baseless’. Talking to TIWN correspondent, Education minister Tapan Chakraborty said that it is totally baseless and it is simply a rumour to misrepresent the good image of the CPI-M government. He further said that the financial expenses for filing the case in the Supreme Court against the decision of the High Court will be entirely bear by the state government and the employees don’t have any role to pay in it. Further, terming this move as a rumour he said that it is totally baseless and illogical. It is simply done to spoil the good name of the party. It is alleged that Manik Sarkar’s CPI-M manipulating High Court’s order of disbursing 31% long pending DA to hapless Govt employees as a tool to pile up crores of Party funds in the name of fighting case in Supreme Court.However, commenting over the status of filing case Minister Tapan chakraboty also said that the preliminary work is almost done, Finance movement has already moved the file and the rest of t eh thing will be done in the stipulated time.

It is to be mentioned here that Tripura High Court has ordered the state govt. to pay 31 % DA unless the govt. here doesn’t take any proper DA system and Pay Commissions implement.

However, challenging the decision of the High Court over clearing 31 percent DA, state government has decided to move to Supreme Court. 

However, it is alleged that Government has decided to appeal to Supreme Court against the High Court order regarding release of balance DA. For appealing to the Supreme Court a large amount will be required to pay the lawyer’s fees. For this they have decided to collected that amount from the employees as donation (Rs 800/= per head).

The Tripura government will move to the Supreme Court challenging the Tripura High Court verdict that it had to pay pending 31 per cent dearness allowance (DA) to its 209,000 employees and pension holders. After the latest four per cent release on July 14, the dearness allowance of Tripura government employees and pensioners rose to 83 per cent, while the central government employees are getting the allowance at 125 per cent.

High Court Judge Subhashish Talapatra in a divisional bench announced it.

Court has ordered to give the 31 % DA since 1/1/2009 to 27/8/2011, in 3 instalments.

So the first instalment will be started from 1/7/2016.

By increasing 4 per cent DA for the pensioners and state government employees the difference between the state and central employees still remained at 42 per cent.