:dateline:Almost a year ahead of the Assembly elections, the Punjab Government today announced the setting up of the Sixth Pay Commission to woo government employees.
Chief Minister Parkash Badal met representatives of various employee unions and said modalities for the Sixth Punjab Pay Commission, including its composition, terms and conditions, would be soon finalised by the Personnel Department.�
The commission would be mandated to give recommendations on the new pay scales for employees and revision in pensions.
Though the state�s top functionaries have themselves publically spoken against the huge wage bill of the state government and maintained that the Punjab Government employees were among the highest paid, the SAD-BJP leadership seems to have had a change of heart almost one year ahead of the elections.
Over 65 per cent of the state�s revenue receipts go into payment of salaries and pensions and other retirement benefits (Rs 25,536.35 crore) and another 20 per cent is spent on making interest payments (Rs 9,900.14 crore).
As this year the revenue receipts have shown less than targeted growth, it will be a challenge for any government to revise the pay scales and clear the wage bill each month. Badal also said that another installment of 6 per cent dearness allowance (DA) for government employees and pensioners/family pensioners, due from July 1, 2015,�would be paid from January 2016 onwards. The DA arrears for 17 months are pending and employees were assured today that these would be released within two months.
The CM also announced sops for industrial units located in Goindwal Sahib Industrial Nucleus Complex. Though the industry located here has been representing to the government for several years to get a bailout package, it was only today that the CM announced concessions.
He permitted the industrial plot holders of up to 8,000 sq yards to deposit the balance amount at 10% simple interest. Earlier, this facility �was only limited to the plots of 500 and 1,000 sq yards.
The 30-odd ancillary units of Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited will get sanctioned industrial subsidies before the end of this fiscal.
1984 and Justice will not be possible because of the unnecessary killing indulged by Bhinderwla followers. It is devoid of all Moral authority.
Democracy cannot be Tyrannical to its people for simple reason because it is by the people ,for the people and of the people .
As for Jews and Nazis and Germany in WW -2 and is a separate discussion .
Howe ever Remember the Fate of “NAZIS”
Indian democracy is dominated by a massively uneducated populous which is kept that way by parties (come political and some religious) who rely upon illiteracy and communal prejudice to keep their vote banks well stocked. I have personally seen people seeking elected office effectively bribing voters by offering them cash folded in palm leaves as they moved along a line. You know full well that democracy in India is undermined by corruption, nepotism and patronage on a wide scale.
2017. Electoral bugle. has been sounded.
Let the claimant’s of
Throne of Punjab
try there luck.
As for people of Punjab .
Time to be pampared by the political class.
Your comments here Harinder show even you understand that democracy in India is largely a sham and the photo above says it all quite eloquently. I have attached for other readers my previous comments to your suggestion ‘that democracies cannot be tyrannical’.
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‘How can a democratic regime be tyrannical?’ Have you not heard of Nazi Germany? Hitler didn’t take over his country the beloved fatherland by brute force although he tried that with a violent uprising in Munich in the twenties which failed. He resorted to presenting a civil face to the electorate and steadily won more and more votes to the Reichstaad (Germany Parliament) until he was in a position to usurp the democratic system that he despised. Once he’d got his hands on the levers of power through democratic means he was able to present himself to the world as the legitimate representative of the German people and pass laws such as the Nuremburg anti-Jewish laws that led to discrimination and violence against German Jews. India was a democratic country when it as a State actively sponsored an anti Sikh pogrom in 1984 in its very capitol city and protected those murderers for over thirty years. Indian democracy is as frail as German democracy was during that post Weimer Republic period which allowed Hitler’s National Socialists to acquire seat after seat following election after election in that its democracy is dominated by a massively uneducated populous which is kept that way by parties (come political and some religious) who rely upon illiteracy and communal prejudice to keep their vote banks well stocked. I have personally seen people seeking elected office effectively bribing voters by offering them cash folded in palm leaves as they moved along a line. You know full well that democracy in India is undermined by corruption, nepotism and patronage on a wide scale. You yourself have again and again on these posts insinuated that Sikhs should keep quiet and not raise their voices in opposition – that is not democracy when the country is afraid of its own people and its own people live in fear of what the ‘democratic’ State is prepared to sanction (fake encounters, extra judicial killings etc). Winston Churchill said democracy is the least worst option of civil governance so it is not a panacea which tyrants can hide behind whilst they perpetrate abuses against their peoples. There is also the question of oppression caused by the will of the majority upon the minority when it comes to democracy in India which is why it was set up with a secular constitution as otherwise the majority religion in the subcontinent (Hinduism) would always prevail against other minority interests (such as those of the Sikhs, the Muslims and Christians of late).
The law of a country especially one claiming to be democratic must if it is to be obeyed provide justice. Those poor Sikh victims of the pogroms of 1984 have been law abiding for more than thirty years – have they received justice ‘Harinder’? Or should they continue to suffer in silence in order not to upset you? It is the duty of every citizen in India to stand up against injustice no matter who it is inflicted upon otherwise you are nothing more than a slave in your own land. This notion of ‘knowing your place’, ‘keeping your head down’ is alien to the Sikh psyche and RSS apologists like you are doing the democracy of India a grave and quite frankly traitorous disservice.
“Let the claimant�s of
Throne of Punjab
try there luck.”
And what are you exactly, Badal’s court jester?