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The reason for the anomaly was the employees failure to link their PAN and Aadhaar cards before March 31 as mandated by the income tax department...
When they received their salary slips, the employees discovered that only Re 1 had been credited as their total salary for the month.1...
Vijay D Sakpal, a BMC labourer from the solid waste management department, procured a list of 9,000 workers from A to T wards who got a salary of Re 1..
They didnt even warn us that our salary will get deducted, and neither are we educated enough to know that we are supposed to link our PAN and Aadhar cards, said Sakpal, who has been working since 2005 and earns a monthly income of 55,000..
The deputy municipal commissioner added that whether the workers salaries would be reimbursed after linking the two cards would depend on the income tax rules..
