Lottery of priests and employees of Kashi Vishwanath Temple, Yogi government gave state employee status:

News India Live, Digital Desk: The Yogi government of Uttar Pradesh has taken a historic decision for priests, qualities and employees serving Baba in Kashi Vishwanath Temple. While fulfilling the demand for decades, the government has given the status of state employee to all of them. With this decision, there has been a huge increase in the salary of the temple employees about three times and for the first time their service rules have also been implemented.

Waiting for decades ended, honored honored

Employees of Kashi Vishwanath Temple were demanding the status of government employee and a fixed pay scale for a long time. Till now he used to get a certain honorarium, which was quite low. But now after the implementation of the service manual, they will not only get salary like state employees, but will also get the benefit of other government facilities such as dearness allowance (DA) and annual increment. This decision will bring a big and positive change in the lives of about 145 employees and 35 priests of the temple.

Bumper increase in salary

After the implementation of this new rule, there has been a tremendous increase in the salary of employees. For example:

• Chief Executive Officer: The salary has increased from Rs 37,400 to Rs 1,44,200.
• Additional Chief Executive: The salary has increased from Rs 15,600 to Rs 78,800.
• Priests and Archives: The honorarium has also been increased from Rs 9,500 to Rs 28,600.
• Cleancisions: The salary by Rs 4,900 has increased to Rs 17,700.

Service rules applicable, everything will be fixed now

As the salary increases, the service manual has been approved in the temple for the first time. This means that now the recruitment of employees, their qualifications, promotion, holiday rules and retirement process, everything will be done under government rules. This will bring transparency in the entire system and the future of employees will also be safe.

This historic decision was approved in the 104th board meeting of Shri Kashi Vishwanath Temple Trust Council. This decision will not only improve the standard of living of temple employees, but will also provide them a social security and respect. This step of the Yogi government is being considered a big step towards further strengthening the system of the temple after the grand construction of Kashi Vishwanath Corridor.