AGARTALA, January 28 (TIWN): High Court of Tripura (HC) has again delivered a blow to the state government. And this time the issue is state govt. employees emoluments. No wonder that the state govt employees are getting one of the lowest salaries in the country as per available data. Meanwhile, in the last year a case was filed by Souvik Bardhan (A govt of Tripura employee) in the High Court of Tripura on the issue of salaries of govt of Tripura employees. Earlier the single bench of Justice Swapan Das had rejected the case remarking that the case is too broad and elaborative that it can not be decided by this bench. Thereafter, a writ petition was filed in the HC’s division bench comprising of Justice Subhasis Talapatra and Chief Justice Deepak Gupta. The division bench has now accepted the case of employee emoluments and has issued notice to the state government to give reply within next 8 weeks.

Nevertheless, the state govt is, fallaciously, uttering the tales of deprivation by the finance commissions. Opposition, media and employee leaders have number of times proven that the govt. is deliberately befooling the employees of the state but the stubbornness of the govt. seems more significant than the justified and proven statements.

Moreover, using logical facts and figures it has been stated again and again that if the state government desires it can blissfully end all the demands of the employees as the salary and pension head come under committed expenditure. Not only this, the matter of fact is that whatever salary and allowances will be paid by the government, the central government would reimburse the same amount, totally. And the same subsequently would have infused more money to the economy of the state. But all these denote that left government is not interested to enrich the state and its people for the sake of its narrow political dictums.

According to some anticipated estimations, once the recommendation of the Seventh Pay Commission gets implemented, the Group-D level employees will be getting more than the Additional Secretary level officers (Senior TCS officers).Now that is neither bizarre nor pathetic, because the quantitative effect of state government employees in vote bank would not create an adverse impact in CPI (M)’s ballot box.