The Assam Government has decided to disburse full salaries and pensions for the month of May informed state Finance Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma through his twitter handle.

In a tweet, Sarma said, "Assam Govt has decided to disburse full salaries & pensions for the month of May. This is possible due to the release of devolution grant by union http://govt.My deep gratitude to PM Sri @narendramodi FM @nsitharaman. Our own revenue has also shown gradual improvement."

Notably, Sarma hinted at not being able to disbursethe salary to the state government employees owning to COVID-19 lockdown lastmonth.

However, during one of the interactions with themedia, Sarma assured all possible measures to ensure that the salaries andpensions of the state government employees and pensioners could be released.