AGARTALA, Jan 8 (TIWN): Whereas everyone is eagerly waiting for budget session-2017 which is likely to be held on Feb 1st but Tripura govt employees left with ‘No Hope’. Yet the TGTEA members have no complain about all these. Rather it boosted CPI-M govt’s leadership in a programme at Agartala on Sunday and continued their lies against Modi Govt for ‘depriving state Tripura’. No have no problem with 5 % DA neither they raise demand to equal the pay-grade of Tripura employees. Although the state govt. of Tripura hikes the DA provision twice a year but the percentage never ups above 5 %. In the whole year the DA doesn’t go upto 10 % after the whole year. Whereas the state govt employees were waiting for atleast 6th Pay Commission’s implementation, the Finance Dept has sealed the expectation again with only 5 % DA hike ahead of New Year. However, the Budget session of Parliament was convened to start from January 31, a day before the Union Budget is likely to be presented.

The Cabinet Committee on Parliamentary Affairs had recently recommended that the Budget session will commence on January 31 and the Union Budget will be presented the next day so that the new financial provisions come into force from April 1, the beginning of the new fiscal. With this the 7^th Pay Commission topic also raised, but how far Union Central budget will be affective for Tripura people.

On the other hand “May implement new allowances structure for government staff by March”, a Central Finance Ministry official recently said. On the other hand whereas Tripura Govt will receive the full benefits of 7^th pay commission in Finance Dept account but the Govt will not distribute the amount to the employees.

The 7th pay commission had recommended abolishing of 51 allowances and subsuming 37 others out of 196 allowances. On the protest of central government employees, the government set Committee on Allowances headed by the Finance Secretary Ashok Lavasaup to review allowances other than dearness allowance, but no hope for Tripura Govt employees so far !

Recently asking about the 5 % DA hike, Deb said, “How can the govt give more DA as it has zero income, no revenue generation”.

“Nothing will happen under this Govt. It has no initiative to generate more revenues so that the income of the state govt would increase. So how it will hike the DA more than 5 %”?, Deb added.

“This DA hike with 5 % is just a show-off and to hide to failure of the state govt to benefit the Govt employees”, said Deb. 

It’s worthy to mention here that earlier in a shocking revelation it was known that the one and only CPI-M long ruling state Tripura’s GDP growth rate is only 7 %, which is the lowest in the whole country even worse than Jharkhand and any  North East State.

Whereas during the 11^thConvention of Tripura Upajaiti Karmachari Committee Tripura CM gave a one  & half hours long speech to teach how to develop the economy of the country and how to increase the country made source of income on the same day a national BJP leader Shruti Bangaru Laxmi told Tripura media that Tripura’s actual growth in domestic product is only 7 % as per central govt’s data, which has been identified as the lowest GBP growth rate in a country.