Govt hikes quantum of pension for teachers.... Bengal govt increases pension of retired school teachers

PTI. 22 February 2020, Kolkata: Despite its 'limited financial capacity', the West Bengal government has increased pension of school teachers, who had retired before January 2016, a state minister said.

The order will apply to the family pensioners and teachers of state government-aided schools, who were drawing pension on December 31, 2015, according to a notification.

There will be 20 per cent rise of basic pension for the retired teachers in the age of 80 to 85 years while the increase will be by 30 per cent for those who are above 85 years of age to less than 90, the notification said.

The minimum revised basic pension is fixed at Rs 8,500, it said.

The order will be effective from April 1, this year.

State education minister Partha Chatterjee said the government is committed to provide retirement benefits to elderly school teachers.

'No other state governments have worked for the retired teachers the way we have done, despite our limited financial capacity,' he said.

The announcement, however, comes ahead of the elections to the Kolkata Municipal Corporation and 107 other civic bodies of the state, which are likely to be held in mid April.

MP, 22 February 2020, Kolkata: The state government has increased the quantum of pension of teachers on the basis of their age groups.

A notification in this regard has been released by the state School Education department.

Pensioners in the age group of 80-85 years will get a hike of 20 per cent of their basic pension, for those in the age group of 85-90 years the hike in the pension is 30 per cent, those in 90-95 years category will have 40 per cent increase, those within 95-100 years will get a 50 per cent hike, while those over 100 years will have a cent percent hike.

According to the notification, the quantum of pension available to the old pensioners have been increased with effect from January 1 , 2016 to December 31, 2019 notionally with actual effect from January 1, 2020.