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NEW DELHI: Bengal main curate Mamata Banerjee connected Sunday announced a Rs 500 summation successful the monthly honorarium for priests and muezzins successful West Bengal, hours earlier the Election Commission is scheduled to denote the canvass dates for assembly elections successful 4 canvass bound states and the Union Territory of Puducherry.
She besides announced the support of each caller applications by the AITC led authorities government.The announcement came up of the enforcement of the Model Code of Conduct, which comes into effect erstwhile the predetermination docket is declared and which volition barroom governments from making caller argumentation announcements oregon fiscal commitments that could power voters.In a station connected X, Banerjee said the authorities authorities had decided to summation the monthly honorarium for priests (purohits) and muezzins by Rs 500.
"I americium pleased to denote an summation of Rs 500 successful the monthly honorariums extended to our purohits and muezzins, whose work sustains the spiritual and societal beingness of our communities. With this revision, they volition present person Rs 2,000 per month.At the aforesaid time, each caller applications that person been duly submitted by purohits and muezzins person besides been approved by the State Government", the West Bengal CM wrote successful a station connected X.
With the revision, the monthly outgo for some groups volition summation to Rs 2,000. The main curate further added that each caller applications submitted by priests and muezzins seeking the honorarium person been approved by the authorities government.Banerjee said the determination reflects the government’s committedness to recognising the relation played by spiritual functionaries successful society."We instrumentality pridefulness successful nurturing an situation wherever each assemblage and each contented is valued and strengthened,” she wrote, adding that the government’s endeavour is to guarantee that those who safeguard the state’s spiritual traditions person owed designation and support", she wrote.Mamata Banerjee besides announced successful a abstracted station that the West Bengal authorities volition statesman disbursing pending dearness allowance (DA) arrears nether ROPA 2009 to employees and pensioners from March 2026. In a station connected X, the West Bengal main curate said the determination fulfils a committedness made by the authorities authorities to its employees arsenic good arsenic unit of acquisition and different grant-in-aid institutions. "I americium blessed to denote that our Ma-Mati-Manush authorities has delivered connected its committedness to each its employees and pensioners, and to lakhs of teachers and non-teaching unit of our acquisition institutions, arsenic good arsenic employees/pensioners of our different grant-in-aid institutions similar panchayats, municipal bodies, different section bodies etc," she wrote.
She added that the payments volition statesman from adjacent period successful enactment with the modalities notified by the authorities concern department. "They volition commencement receiving their ROPA 2009 DA arrears from March 2026 onwards arsenic per the modalities elaborate retired successful the Notifications issued by our Finance Department."The announcements came soon earlier the canvass panel, led by main predetermination commissioner Gyanesh Kumar and comprising predetermination commissioners Sukbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi, is expected to denote the docket for the assembly elections successful Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Kerala, Assam and Puducherry astatine a property league successful New Delhi astatine 4 pm.
