Allowance
There are different types of allowances for West Bengal Govt. employees e.g. Dearness Allowance, House Rent Allowance, Medical Allowance, Compensatory Allowance, Hill Allowance, Spectacle Allowance, etc.
Village Level Entrepreneurs (VLE) engaged for the purpose of making data entry who are paid on pro-rata basis, the Department makes an ad-hoc increase of 30% in respect of data entry charge in respect of all existing data entry interfaces.
‘Administrative Allowances’/ ‘Special Allowances’ for Block Development Officer, Sub-Divisional Officer, Additional District Magistrate is Rs. 1,200/- per month.
The authority has decided to pay Rs. 5/- as remuneration per Answer script, Rs. 90/- for each half of the invigilation duty and Rs. 20/- as Tiffin allowance.
Payment of monthly fixed honorarium to the ASHAs at the rate of Rs. 1300.00 only per month per ASHA with effect from 01.04.2013 until further orders in addition to their monthly performance based incentive received by them as usual, from NRHM fund.
The questions of revision of rates of remuneration of the staffs of Ashram Hostels for SC/ ST students run by Backward Classes Welfare Department in West Bengal was under active consideration of the Government for sometime past.
Salaried or wage-earning physically handicapped persons who are not liable to pay Income-tax under the Income-tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961) are exempted P.Tax.
Court Staff who are deputed to attend Lok Adalat work shall be paid Compensatory Allowance @ 5% of their basic pay if they are deputed during general holidays.
Gr. D employees, who are attached to office where there is no post of duplicating machine operator and are operating the same in addition to their normal duties will get additional remuneration @ Rs. 80/- per month.
The employee viz Polling/ Counting Personnel who will die a natural death out of strenous work while in due performance of election shall also be paid a Special Compensation of Rs 5,00,000/- only.
Introduction of new TR Form No. 73 for Drawal of various allowances etc which are not drawn through regular Pay Bills.