Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Den on Monday said his government would give the highest Dearness Allowance (DA) to the employees.
“Huge fund is required to give DA to the employees. The government is looking into the matter. We will give the highest DA to the employees,” he said.
In the case of other allowances, Deb hinted that budgetary allocation would be there for increasing the allowances as promised in the vision document.
Deb was speaking to the media after his review meeting with the MLAs and Ministers.
Replying to a query, the Chief Minister said, the government already fulfilled around 80 to 90 percent of the promises made in the vision document while the state also witnessed many other works which are not mentioned in the vision document.
Deb said the meeting focused on various development works implemented in the assembly constituencies as well as the works that need to be done.
CM chairs meet with six MLAs, ministers on development issue
Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb held a meeting with the MLAs and ministers of different constituencies to discuss development issues on Monday.
ICA minister Sushanta Chowdhury, who attended the meeting, said MLAs and ministers from Mohanpur, Barjala, Majlishpur, Khayerpur, 8-Town Bordwali and Banamalipur were present in the meeting.
“The Chief Minister discussed the development issues of these areas. The works implemented in the constituencies have been reviewed and the works to be done as per the vision document have also been discussed,” Chowdhury told the media.
According to Chowdhury, the Chief Minister passed necessary instructions to the officers concerned for timely completion of the works.
He also hinted that the state government would fulfil its promise of increasing the allowance for around 4.50 lakh beneficiaries to Rs. 2000.
Chowdhury said, the ADG (law and order) joined the meeting at the last moment but there was no discussion on the law and order issues till he was present in the meeting.
“There is a sub-divisional hospital at Majlishpur, a community health center at Jirania and a primary health center at Jirania where a good number of people avail facilities. It’s a long-standing demand to upgrade the Jirania CHC to PHC. Now, a decision has been taken to introduce all facilities of a sub-divisional hospital at the CHC,” he said.
Chowdhury stated that there was no political discussion in the meeting.
Meanwhile, Monday’s meeting was part of the Chief Minister’s marathon meeting held a few days ago. The MLAs of those areas which were not covered in the last meeting had attended the meeting on Monday. (Courtesy: Tripura Times)
