Chandigarh August 13: Haryana Government has decided to give honorarium to the retirees of the government aided schools, who retired between July, 28, 1988 to May 10, 1998 through the scheme to be called PT. Deen Dayal Upadhyaya honorarium scheme.

A decision to this effect was taken in the meeting of Council of Ministers held under the chairmanship of Chief Minister, Mr. Manohar Lal, here today.

As per the decision, a retired Principal will get an Honorarium of Rs. 20,000 per month, Headmaster will get an Honorarium of Rs. 18,000 per month, and Lecturers will get an Honorarium of Rs. 16,000 per month, Masters/ Hindi/ Punjabi/ Sanskrit/ Urdu Teachers, an Honorarium of Rs. 14,000 per month and JBTs/ Drawing Teachers/ PTIs/ Cutting & Tailoring teachers etc will get an Honorarium of Rs. 12,000 per month.

While, the Non-Teaching Staff (Class III) and Non-Teaching Staff (Class IV) will get a monthly Honorarium of Rs. 11,000 and Rs. 6,000 respectively.

At present, there are approximately 352 employees who had retired between July 28, 1988 to May 10, 1998. These people contributed a lot in shaping the future of generations during their active service and have no financial security in their old age and are solely dependent on others for their livelihood.

They must have fulfilled the conditions of minimum qualifying service of 10 years on sanctioned/ aided post at the time of their retirement from such schools.

The honorarium shall be paid till the death of the retiree and it shall not be extended to any dependents or legal heir of the retirees.

The honorarium will be granted only to those retirees, who are not getting any other such type of pension benefits. This policy shall come into force w.e.f. the date of January, 1, 2019.

The eligible retiree will have to submit an application along with an affidavit by mentioning the above terms and conditions for grant of honorarium to the concerned Management of privately managed aided school and the same will be forwarded by them to the concerned District Education Officer/District Elementary Education Officer with their recommendations. They will also have to be an undertaking that they would not ask for any enhancement in the amount of honorarium in future.