Punjab Newsline Network
Monday, 08 December 2008
CHANDIGARH: The Haryana Chief Minister, Bhupinder Singh Hooda Monday announced a New Year gift for the Haryana Government employees and said that the report of sixth pay commission would be implemented in the state from January first, 2006 and the employees would get their hiked pay in the month of January which would be paid in February 2009.

The Chief Minister was interacting with the media persons at Haryana Niwas here today after signing of MoU between Japanese giant Mitsui & Company India Private Limited and Haryana State Industrial and Infrastructure Development Corporation and IL&FS Infrastructure Development Corporation Limited to set up an Integrated Japanese Industrial, Transportation and Logistic Park in Haryana.

Hooda said that the employees would get the enhanced pay scale broadly on the pattern of Central Government. He said that the report of the committee, which had been constituted to implement the recommendations of sixth pay commission, was almost ready.

The Chief Minister revealed that during last more than three and half years, Haryana had been able to generate an investment of Rs.40,000 crore including FDI of more than Rs.11,000 crore. Further investment of Rs.90,000 crore was in the pipeline through domestic and international sources, he added. He further maintained that Haryana had always shared very close relations with Japan. In fact, a major chunk of the total FDI received in the state, had come from the Japanese companies.