To boost the population of indigenous communities in Sikkim, the State government has decided to provide advance and additional increments to its employees having two or three children with retrospective effect from January 1 this year, according to a notification.
The State government employees possessing Sikkim Subject Certificate/Certificate of Identification shall get one advanced increment for having two surviving children, the Department of Personnel Secretary Rinzing Chewang Bhutia said in a notification issued on May 10.
Those employees having three surviving children shall get one additional increment, he said, adding anyone of the spouses can claim for advance increment on mutual understanding.
