<span style="color: #222222;">Himachal Pradesh government has announced new pay scales for its employees with effect from 1 January, 2016. Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur while addressing the Joint Coordination Committee (JCC) of the Himachal Pradesh Non-Gazetted Employees Federation on Saturday said that all the pensioners and family pensioners would also be given revised pension and other pensionary benefits from 1 January, 2016.<br />'' <br />'' These new pay scales and revised pension would put additional burden of Rs. 6000 crore annually on the State exchequer. Jai Ram Thakur also announced implementation of New Pension System   (Invalid Pension and Family Pension )  from 15th May, 2003 according to Office Memorandum dated 5 May, 2009 of Central Government to the employees of the State Government. He said that this would put additional burden of about Rs. 250 crore on the State exchequer.<br />'' <br />'' State government also announced reduction in the period of contractual employees of the State Government for their regularization from three years to two years.<br />''<br />''It may be recalled that the State Government was spending about 43 per cent of its total budget on employees and pensioners which would increase upto 50 per cent after the implementation of the 6th pay Commission.  During the last about four years the State Government had enhanced the DA of employees and pensioner of the State by 22 per cent and financial benefits of Rs 1320 crore were provided to their employees.</span>