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Punjab govt stands by its employees: Manpreet Badal

Chandigarh, Aug 19 (UNI) Punjab Finance Minister Manpreet Singh Badal on Wednesday said that the Punjab Government has stood by its employees and pensioners despite the financial constraints due to nationalwide lockdown imposed to contain the COVID-19 pandemic and paid 100 per cent salary and pension to them on time without any delay.
Urging all the employees and pensioners to terminate the strike and help the State Government fight the COVID-19 pandemic, Mr Badal said that the State Government has even allowed Provisional Pension to the employees retiring from January 2020 onwards, so that no one has to face financial crunch on account of the lockdown.
He also that the state government has lived up to its five mantras— salaries, pensions, subsidy to powercom, debt servicing and disbursing old-age & social security pension- it has not defaulted for a single day. The State Government has also increased the ex-gratia grant to Rs 50 lakhs payable to the dependents of government employees who die while on duty fighting the novel coronavirus, he added.
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