No plan to cut salaries: Centre

New Delhi, May 11

The Centre today reiterated its earlier stand that there was no proposal of salary cut for the Central government employees. Rejecting media reports in this regard, the government requested the employees to ignore “fake” news.

Minister of States for Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) Jitendra Singh took to Twitter and said, “Please ignore the fake news being circulated in a section of media. There is no proposal by the government to carry out deduction in the salaries of its employees.”

The Ministry of Finance also clarified that there was no such proposal. Due to the economic slowdown in the wake of the Covid restrictions, the increase in the Dearness Allowance of Central government employees and Dearness Relief to its pensioners have been halted till June 2021. — TNS