24-09-2021: The government has ordered a “recovery” of excess amount paid to employees as part of additional salary for discharging polls duties during Municipal and Panchayat Elections.
In all, Rs 43.29 crores have been paid to employees along with additional salary due to mistakes by DDOs who construed “salary” to be inclusive of local allowances, HRA, deputation allowance, and traveling allowance, according to the government order.