BANGALORE, Feb 4: Judicial officers belonging to the subordinate courts in the country would get an interim relief ranging from 35 per cent to 75 per cent of their basic pay and Dearness Allowance with retrospective effect from July 1 1996.This announced here today, chairman of the first National Judicial Pay Commission, Justice K Jagannatha Shetty About 11,000 judicial officers all over the country would be benefited out of the decision, he said.
He said the commission had not granted any interim relief to the officers in Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, New Delhi, Pondicherry, Lakshadweep, Goa, Daman and Diu as the officers in these places were already getting benefits of the Fifth Pay Commission. He said judicial officers in Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu would get an interim relief of 35 per cent while those in Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Maharashtra, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Orissa, Punjab, Rajasthan, Tripura and Uttar Pradesh wold receive 40 percent.
In Sikkim it would be 45 per cent, in West Bengal 55 per cent and Assam 75 per cent. He said payment of interim relief was binding and obligatory on the part of the state governments.
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