Himachal Electricity Board will start getting revised pension from July

Retired pensioner from Himachal Pradesh Electricity Board will start getting revised and increased pension from the month of July.  The Electricity Board issued orders regarding this on Monday.  According to the orders, the pension of May was to be received in the month of June, but the month of May has passed.  So this month’s pension has already been made.  Therefore, it is not possible to get increased pension in the month of May and June.  The increased pension for the month of June will definitely start getting from July and the pension for the month of May will be added to the arrears.  At the same time, the employees of the Electricity Board will have to wait for the arrears of increased pension fixed from January 2016.27 thousand pensioners will be benefited About 27 thousand pensioners will be benefited by the orders of the State Electricity Board. Due to the revised pension, there will be an increase in the monthly pension of three to four thousand rupees to 12 to 15 thousand rupees. Electricity workers have not got the benefits yet, the state government has given the benefits of sixth pay scale to all its employees. Most of the boards and corporations have not yet been able to give the benefits of the new pay scale to their employees and pensioners. The Electricity Board has ordered to give benefits of new pay scale to its employees in the month of April, more than 90 percent of the employees are yet to get its benefits.The salary discrepancy of the employees should be resolved soon. Himachal Pradesh Electricity Employees Federation’s secretary Hira Lal Verma has welcomed the revised pension orders. Along with this, he has demanded early settlement of the discrepancies in the sixth pay scale of the electrical employees. He said that the electrician has been demanding the benefit of 6th pay scale for a long time