Union Cabinet today approved adaptation of the Jammu and Kashmir Panchayati Raj Act, 1989.
Briefing media in New Delhi on Wednesday afternoon, Information and Broadcasting Minister, Prakash Javadekar said, the move will establish three tiers of grass-root level democracy in Jammu and Kashmir like in other parts of the country.
He said, it was promised by Prime Minister in Kashmir and by Home Minister in the Parliament.
Mr Javadekar said, the Cabinet has also approved productivity linked bonus and non-productivity linked Bonus for the non-gazetted central government employees for 2019-2020 .
He said, more than 30 lakh employees will be benefited by the bonus announcement and total financial implication will be Rs. 3,737 crore .
The bonus will be given in a single installment efore Vijaya Dashmi.
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