Chief secretary Manoj Pant today issued a strict directive to government officials, employees and police, asking them to concentrate on their work diligently and finish pending work on a war footing.
The Uttarakhand government has said that participation of state employees in morning and evening meetings and other cultural and social activities of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) will not be considered a violation of Uttarakhand State Employees Conduct Rules-2002.
Deputy Chief Minister Premchand Bairwa on Wednesday said that the Cabinet has approved the hike in the gratuity ceiling from Rs 20 lakh to Rs 25 lakh.
An unidentified man was found lying dead inside the state-run R G Kar Medical College Hospital complex on Saturday.
Special team effort of railway employees of Asansol division has made the train operation stable with a slight punctuality loss even in havoc waterlogging conditions due to 200mm rainfall in the last 12 hours.
Edtech major Byju’s has paid November salaries of some of its employees after a “technical glitch” hampered the payment of some 1,000 workers.
Sukhu said that many measures have been initiated to improve the economy of the state days after the formation of the Congress government.
Nearly 2.5 lakh employees have been laid off so far this year in the global technology and startup sector, as the tech layoffs continue unabated for the past two years.
Snap, the parent company of Snapchat, has laid off nearly 20 employees who held product management titles as part of a restructuring aimed at streamlining the social messaging company.
The new pension scheme for its employees, inferior to the existing one, is a case in point. More disturbing is the denial, due to some flimsy objections, of the higher pension right to a large number of employees already covered under the Employees’ Provident Fund (EPF) scheme, not to speak of the total exclusion of a category of employees recruited after 1 September 2014.
