The state government of Tamil Nadu has announced Pongal festival Bonus for the state government employees and the government school teachers.
For the year 2016-2017, Category C and D employees and teachers a maximum of Rs. 3000 will be paid a bonus – as the equivalent of 30 days wages/salary.
Further, a bonus of Rs. 1000 will be paid to the following cadres of the state government employees:
The employees in the nutrition meal scheme who are paid as a special term pay, Anganwadi employees working under the coordinated child development scheme, village assistants, Panchayat Assistants in the Panchayat development scheme and the administration, paid under the special term-pay, contract employees (on a temporary basis), employees working under the daily wages scheme, the employees who were on the daily wage scheme earlier and then subsequently made permanent.