Chandigarh, April 28 -- The Punjab government has approved the revision of pension and family pension for teachers and other teaching faculty who retired before January 1, 2016, from government colleges/universities by the 7th UGC Pay Scales.

The revision will be effective from January 1, 2016, and a notification has been issued in this regard.

Punjab higher education minister Harjot Singh Bains stated that the revised pension will benefit approximately 500 retired teaching professionals, including 400 pensioners and 100 family pensioners, amounting to Rs.38.99 crore.

Bains said that the revised pension will be paid to the pensioners who retired before January 1, 2016. "The arrears of the revised pension from October 1, 2022, to Januar...