India, Nov. 1 -- The Himachal Pradesh government has announced that Class-IV workers regularised after May 15, 2003, will receive one year of regular service benefit for every five years of daily wage service, for the purpose of pension calculation.

Chief minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu, while chairing a high-level meeting in Shimla on Saturday, said the new provision will allow employees to count one year of regular service for every five years of daily wage service, up to a maximum of two years.

"This move will particularly benefit those Class-IV employees who were previously deprived of pension benefits at the time of their retirement due to having less than ten years of regular service," he said.

Under the new rule, workers with at...