Monday, 05 December 2022 | PNS | NAINITAL
The State government may take the decision to merge the Kumaon Mandal Vikas Nigam (KMVN) and Garhwal Mandal Vikas Nigam (GMVN) in the near future.These two corporations are the major enterprises of the State government in the tourism sector and they may be merged to form a new organisation.
According to official sources, discussions have been going on at the government level for the past several months on the proposed merger of the two corporations and interests of the employees. Care is being taken to consider all the aspects so that the result of the merger provides a major boost to tourism in the State. Member of the committee formed by the government and KMVN managing director Vineet Tomar said that if all goes well and the two corporations are merged successfully, the result will be the interests of the State. This will help in further development of tourism in the State. The interests of the employees will be taken care of in the planned merger with aspects like promotion, seniority and salary related provisions expected to remain unchanged. He informed that at present the KMVN is facing a major shortage of staff as direct recruitments to the corporation have not been held since 1996. The corporation needs about 300 regular employees at present.
Apart from this the corporation does not have too many resources and the majority of the ones it has are running at loss. After the seventh pay commission the expenditure on salaries of regularised employees in KMVN increased from Rs2.75 crore to Rs three crore while in the GMVN it increased from Rs 3.75 crore to Rs 4.25 crore, he informed.
