New Year gift for Haryana employees

by Haryananewswire
CHANDIGARH, Dec. 8
Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Monday announced a New Year gift for the Haryana Government employees and said that the report of Sixth Pay Commission would be implemented in the state from January 1, 2006 and the employees would get their hiked pay in January which would be paid in February 2009.
The Chief Minister was interacting with the media persons at Haryana Niwas here after signing of MoU between Japanese giant Mitsui & Company India Private Limited and Haryana State Industrial and Infrastructure Development Corporation and IL&FS Infrastructure Development Corporation Limited to set up an Integrated Japanese Industrial, Transportation and Logistic Park in Haryana.
Mr. Hooda said that the employees would get the enhanced pay scale broadly on the pattern of Central Government. He said that the report of the committee, which had been constituted to implement the recommendations of Sixth Pay Commission, was almost ready.
While addressing on the occasion of MoU signing ceremony, Chief Minister maintained that like Japan, Haryana had also grown from a largely agrarian state to an industrialized one and both had been able to transform their economies by sheer dint of hard work and forward looking populace. He said that Haryana had only 1.37 per cent of the country's geographical area and 1.97 per cent of the population. Haryana had achieved the distinction of having the highest per capita income in the country and a leading state in terms of manufacturing a number of items like cars, motorcycles, washing machines.
The Chief Minister revealed that during last more than three and half years, Haryana had been able to generate an investment of Rs.40,000 crore including FDI of more than Rs.11,000 crore. Further investment of Rs.90,000 crore was in the pipeline through domestic and international sources, he added. He further maintained that Haryana had always shared very close relations with Japan. In fact, a major chunk of the total FDI received in the state, had come from the Japanese companies.
Mitsui and Company chairman Munetaka Onose said that Japan had very good friendly relations with Haryana and with the setting up of this Integrated Japanese Industrial, Transportation and Logistic Park; new avenues of employment and investment would be created not for the India but for other countries also. He lauded the role of Haryana Government in providing good infrastructure to the Japanese companies in the state.
HSIIDC Managing Director Rajiv Arora apprised the delegation with the salient features of the project and asserted that new avenues and prospects would be generated for the Japanese companies in the state. He said that it would be the first project of this kind and Haryana had already supporting Japanese companies in such kind of projects.
Chief Secretary Mr Dharam Vir, Principal Secretary to Chief Minister, Mr. M.L. Tayal, Commissioner and Secretary, Industries, Mr. Y.S. Malik, Vice President of IL&FS IDC, Mr. Rubinder Singh and GM Mr. Tsuyoshi Kamihira were also present on the occasion.