By Prabin Kalita
Employees in the state say that these ghosts came into existence by 1988 and their numbers peaked around 2000.
Gogoi believes they have been driven out and no longer exist ever since 2005 when the government decided to replace the age old practice of cash payment salary and pension with directly transferring the money from RBI to individual savings accounts of the employees and pensioners.
On Tuesday while presenting an interim budget for the first quarter of the next fiscal, Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi highlighted his government's achievements which included driving out ghost employees and pensioners.
"In 2005, I stopped cash payment of salary, pension and other government disbursements with the objective of saving government expenditure on Banking Cash Transaction Tax (BCTT).
It was made mandatory to make all such payments through bank accounts. To my pleasant surprise, I found that not only about Rs 15 cr was saved on BCTT per annum but also our salary and pension payment bills came down by about Rs 300 cr per annum.
This was so because with introduction of salary and pension payments through bank accounts, many ghost employees and pensioners disappeared," Gogoi said here.
There are about 4.55 lakh employees with the state government at present and the government believes that none among them is a 'ghost'.
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