Jammu and Kashmir government has approved the implementation of 7th pay commission recommendations and the employees will draw revised salaries from the current month.
“As already announced by Govt, the employees to draw revised scales of pay from current month,” said the information department on Twitter.
“All necessary notifications regarding implementation of 7th Pay Commission Recommendations to be issued by JK Finance Deptt by this evening,” it said.
Addressing a press conference in Jammu, Finance Minister Altaf Bukhari said that J&K is the first state to implement the recommendations of the seventh pay commission after Centre’s implementation two years ago.
“We don’t have resources but our honourable chief minister has made a committment and we have fulfilled it,” he said.
