Discom staff get salary twice due to bank error

This could have been a SMS joke for the Jaipur discom employees when they received text message of getting salary twice this month. The employees got the salary for the previous months on December 2. However on Friday morning they once again received the message . The information of this was circulated amongst the employees and soon it became the talk of the office.

As soon as Jaipur discom administration came to know about it , it got in touch with the bank .

They got to know that it was due to the bank’s mistake that the salary was credited once again into the accounts of the employees.

“We have contacted the bank, there was some error in the way bank processed the salary. They have been asked to correct this,” said M S Palawat, director finance of Jaipur Discom.

The electricity company had made  annual payment of about Rs 6,12,83,66,398 to its employees in the year ended March 31, 2016 . The amount credited twice not of this magnitude as the officials claimed it was related to salaries of a particular branch of Jaipur Discom.