Chandigarh, Feb. 6 -- In a major boost to around 1,000 employees from Punjab and Haryana posted on deputation in Chandigarh, the UT administration has okayed key service-related allowances to bring them on par with regular employees of the administration.

The employees will receive the benefits with retrospective effect from April 1, 2022.

According to estimates, an employee is expected to receive pending arrears of up to Rs.5 lakh, including dearness allowance (DA), enhanced house rent allowance (HRA), travelling allowance, children education allowance, arising from fresh pay fixation, and revised basic pay under the Seventh Pay Commission. In addition, the employees will now see a salary hike of around Rs.10,000 to Rs.12,000 a month....