Nitish Kumar’s Big Move : 2× Salary for School Support Staff
As the Bihar Elections 2025 are round the corner, the ruling party is announcing many welfare based schemes and increasing the salary for government workers. In the same sequence, now CM Nitish Kumar has announced his decision to increase the monthly salary of government school support staff, mainly for cooks, night watchmen and health instructors. The salary has been doubled for all these educational workers.
Here’s everything about Nitish Kumar’s decision to double the salary of school support staff ahead of Bihar Elections 2025, including the list of revised salary amounts for the workers, announcements made during the press meet and its political context. You can use the following Table of Contents to navigate as per your preference:
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Education Workers to Get Double Pay
Nitish Kumar made this announcement through his social media post on the platform X (formerly known as Twitter). He said that the educational workers have played a very important role in strengthening the education system across Bihar. He believes hat there honorariums must be increased to thank them.
With the new decision:
- Mid-day meal cooks will now get ₹3,300 per month (earlier they got ₹1,650).
- Night watchmen in secondary and higher secondary schools will get ₹10,000 instead of the previous ₹5,000.
- Physical education and health instructors will now receive ₹16,000 (earlier it was ₹8,000)
They will also get ₹400 as the annual raise (which was ₹200 earlier).
Strategic Move by Nitish Kumar
This is not the first time Nitish Kumar has made a welfare move just before elections. Political observers believe that this decision and all the other similar decisions are under the election strategy. This is help in wining the support of all the government staff and workers.
Other Announcements by Nitish Kumar
Apart from the pay hike for government school workers and staff, Nitish Kumar has been announcing various new schemes over the past few weeks. These include:
- 125 units of free electricity for all Bihari households (benefiting over 1 crore people)
- Formation of a State Sanitation Workers Commission
- A revised domicile policy for women’s reservation in state government jobs. Now, only permanent residents of Bihar will be getting the reservations.
- A pension hike for journalists under the Bihar Patrakaar Samman Pension Yojana
These demands were raised from a long time and now the government as acted as per the will of the people. Specially the domicile policy has been a point of protest by the students and was backed by the opposition as well. The opposition is calling the decision a ‘political stunt’ to gain a voter base.
Who Will Benefit From this Decision
A large number of contractual and part-time staff are employed in the Bihar’s educational sector. They will now benefit with increased salaries. Nitish Kumar said that these workers have been contributing a lot but their pay had not been revised as per the market trends, this, he took this decision.
The mid-day meal cooks are generally rural women and lower income individuals so the amount will matter a lot for them. The increased pay had become a necessity and they had been demanding a raise from a long time. Some are saying that even the increased income is not enough.
Conclusion
Whether it’s a political strategy or a genuine welfare based scheme, Nitish Kumar will gain a massive advantage in the upcoming Bihar elections with the move. From free electricity to pension hikes for senior citizens, journalists, ASHA workers and more, he is making announcements that will favour him in the 2025 elections.
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