Govt to release pending salaries of SSA teachers

EMN DIMAPUR, OCTOBER 1 The State government has decided to release all pending salaries of 2730 SSA teachers amounting to Rs 52.14 crore w.e.f. May 2014 to September 2014. An emergency meeting held with the officials of the department of School Education in the office chamber of the Secretary, Finance, today took the decision to release the pending salaries of the SSA teachers following receipt of the adhoc grant from the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), government of India, on October 1. According to a press release issued by Secretary to the Government of Nagaland, Y Kikheto Sema, today, it was decided to release all pending salaries on the strength of DDO wise sub-allocation of fund submitted by the department involving 115 DDOs instead of following the normal file procedures which will take time and also in order to facilitate the teachers to get the salaries at the earliest. The government has asked the department to move for proposal for placement of fund on the strength of adhoc grant released by the government of India. The amount that is authenticated to be released for payment of salaries will be regularized, the press note stated. As per the decision, the DDO wise sub-allocation has been authenticated and the Principal Director, Treasuries and Accounts, has been asked to direct all the treasury officers to honour the salary bill as per the DDO wise salary statement. The release reiterated that the delay in payment of salaries pertaining to CSS and other Central flagship programmes are at most times delayed due to the untimely release of funds by the government of India. The government, therefore, urged those departments whose salaries are funded under CSS and flagship programmes to pursue for early release of funds from the government of India to enable it to release their salaries in time.