The Cabinet on Wednesday approved revision of pay scales of the doctors in government service as per agreement reached with their associations.
Accordingly, 76 per cent of the common special allowance will be merged with the basic pay, and the basic pay will be fixed at the next stage in the existing scale. This will have nominal effect from July 1, 2007; and financial benefits will accrue from August 1 this year.
The benefits being granted now will be protected in the next pay revision. Besides, doctors in administrative and speciality cadres will be given a special pay equal to three increments, subject to certain conditions. This too will have effect from August this year. Doctors working in casualties of taluk, district and general hospitals will get special allowance of Rs. 2000 a month.
All disciplinary action taken against doctors in connection with their go-slow agitation from February 27 this year will be withdrawn. Absence from duty on May 3 will be treated as leave of absence.
The anomalies that had occurred in the revision of pay of doctors working in public health laboratories as per the pay revision order of 2009 will be rectified. They will get the same pay as doctors in other wings of Health Department.
The Cabinet further decided to grant UGC scales of pay to faculty of the Institute of Management in Government. Their workload will be fixed as per UGC norms. A centre of State Civil Service Academy will be started in Palakkad.
The government will give award of Rs. 10000 each to 25 children who worked behind the films that received special mention by the jury at the International Children’s Film Festival in Hyderabad in the little directors’ section. The films ‘Nishadam’, ‘Thulyam’ and ‘Dhanam’ were made by the State Social Welfare Department and the Social Security Mission under it.
The Cabinet decided to bring legislation for take over of the handloom weaving factory and land of Kozhikode Commonwealth Trust. It also decided to sanction 477 posts for implementation of the second phase of the Jalanidhi Scheme. The Scheme will cover 200 more panchayats in the second phase. It will have an outlay of Rs. 1026 crore and an agreement was signed with the World Bank recently for its funding.
The government had recently approved the report of V. M. Gopala Menon on the proposal for formation of a development corporation for forward communities. The Cabinet sanctioned nine posts for the corporation. It also decided to upgrade the Kadampuzha police outpost to a police station.
Further, it sanctioned Rs. 5 lakh to the Satyan Foundation in Thiruvananthapuram as a one-time grant and Rs. 3 lakh to 14-year-old Syama Prasad who lost an eye while playing.
It posted B. Asok, who was Vice Chancellor of Veterinary University, as director of Urban Affairs. Kasaragod Collector K. N. Satheesan was shifted to Thiruvananthapuram and Director of Social Welfare V. N. Jitendran was posted as Collector of Kasaragod. Joint Commissioner of Land Revenue C. Raghu was given additional charge of Secretary (Land Board) in place of Sumana N. Menon.
