Uttarakhand: In the presence of CM Dhami and Finance Minister, MOU was signed with banks for corporate salary package and other benefits for government personnel
In the presence of Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami and Finance Minister Premchand Aggarwal, State Bank of India, Bank of Baroda, Union Bank of India, Canara Bank and District Cooperative Bank signed an MoU with the Uttarakhand government for corporate salary package and other benefits for government personnel at the Secretariat on Wednesday. Currently, about 64 percent of the state’s government personnel who have salary accounts in these banks will benefit from this contract.
The state government, under the leadership of Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami, decided on this contract keeping in mind the interests of government personnel. The Chief Minister expressed hope that all these banks will continue to work continuously to make the corporate salary package more beneficial for the employees. Our effort will be that in future 100 percent of the employees can take advantage of this beneficial package. In the branches of these banks, the account holders of salary savings account in salary accounts will be provided the facility of personal insurance cover as well as other financial benefits. Under this, in case of accidental death, total disability and partial disability of the personnel, their dependents will be provided the benefit of claim in the form of compensation and other benefits without paying any premium.
As per the agreement between the State Government and these 05 banks, in the unfortunate event of death of any personnel, this coverage will provide financial assistance to their family, which will be between Rs. 30 lakh to Rs. 100 lakh. In case of total disability, financial assistance of Rs. 30 lakh to Rs. 50 lakh and in case of partial disability, financial assistance of Rs. 10 lakh to Rs. 40 lakh will be provided by the bank under the package. Along with this, there is also a provision of financial assistance in this package for the upcoming needs like medical treatment, ambulance facility, education of children, marriage of daughter due to accident. Even in the case of natural death of the personnel, the bank will provide contribution of Rs. 3 lakh to Rs. 10 lakh to avoid the challenges faced by their dependents.
On this occasion, Chief Secretary Mrs. Radha Raturi, Additional Chief Secretary Anand Bardhan, Principal Secretary R.K. Sudhanshu, Secretary Dilip Jawalkar, Additional Secretary Manmohan Mainali, Treasury Director Dinesh Lohani, SBI General Manager Deepesh Raj, Deputy General Manager Vinod Kumar, M Anil, Bank of Baroda General Manager M. Anil, Union Bank General Manager Amarendra Kumar, Canara Bank Assistant General Manager Mayank Mohan Kaushik, Neeraj Belwal from Cooperative Bank, Rajiv Pant from State Level Bankers Committee were present.
