District Information & Cultural Officer may exercise option to come under the said revised scale of pay as has been allowed vide this Department's Order No. 546-ICA dt. 27.2.09 w.e.f. any date between 1.1.96 to 1.1.97.
The scale of pay of Official Photographer was revised from Scale No, 10 i.e. Rs. 1390-2970/- to Scale No. 11 i.e. Rs. 4650-10175/- w.e.f. 01.01.96 notionally with actual benefit from 01.01.06.
The first higher Scale and Second higher Scale of direct recruit Assistant Information Officer for the purpose of CAS '90/ MCAS '01 benefit would be Scale No. 16 (Rs. 8000-13500/-) and Scale No. 17 (Rs. 10000-15525/-) respectively.
The scale of pay of Sub-Divisional Information & Cultural Officer was revised from Scale No.12 i.e. Rs. 1500-3410/- to Scale No. 14 i.e. Rs. 5500-11325/- with effect from 1.1.96 notionally with actual benefit from 1.1.2007.
Group - A: all employees having pay in the pay Band scale with a maximum above Rs, 37,600/- with Grade pay ranging from Rs. 4,400/- to Rs. 10,000/-
The deputationists who are drawing pay in their respective cadre post i.e. who have opted to draw grade pay of their parent department's scale, may opt to come under the revised pay structure and their parent department will accordingly fix their pay under ROPA '09.