The Assam Government has decided to disburse full salaries and pensions for the month of May informed state Finance Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma through his twitter handle.
In a tweet, Sarma said, “This is possible due to the release of devolution grant by union govt. My deep gratitude to PM Sri @narendramodi FM @nsitharaman.”
He further informed that the state’s own revenue has also shown gradual improvement.
It may be mentioned that Sarma last month had hinted at not being able to disburse the salary to the state government employees due to the ongoing crisis of COVID-19.
However, during one of the interactions with the media, Sarma assured all possible measures to ensure that the salaries and pensions of the state government employees and pensioners could be released.
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