Deficit school staff to come under fifth pay panel

SHILLONG: The state cabinet has decided to include the teaching and non-teaching staff of deficit secondary schools under the ambit of the Fifth Pay Commission thus meeting a long-standing demand.
Deputy Chief Minister, Prestone Tynsong, after a Cabinet meeting on Wednesday said that the Fifth Pay Commission had recommended their inclusion in the new pay scale.
According to Tynsong, there are nine deficit secondary schools in the state where teaching and non-teaching staff would now avail the new revised pay scales with retrospective effective from January 1, 2017.
This decision of the state government would cost the state exchequer Rs 2.5 crore annually.
Meanwhile, the Cabinet has approved a proposal of the Education department to allow the Meghalaya Board of School Education (MBOSE) employees to avail their pension either from National Pension Scheme or the Central Provident Fund
Tynsong said that they want to merge National Pension Scheme and the Central Provident Fund as all these years, the employees were entitled to CPF and hence the central government came up with NPS.