Bhubaneswar, June 29: The state government may not revise its salary structure for its employees on the lines of the recommendations of the seventh pay commission for the central government employees in the immediate future.

Finance minister Pradip Kumar Amat told The Telegraph: "We are awaiting the details. We will examine it (pay revision of the state government employees)."

"Many states have not yet implemented the sixth pay commission recommendations. But, Odisha had done it," he added.

Official sources had said that the pay revision along the central recommendations would entail an expenditure of nearly Rs 5,000 crores and the state, which may face a loan burden of Rs 65,000 crore by next financial year, was hardly in a position to meet the demand. The state government is spending Rs 26,794 core per annum on salary and pension of its employees at present.

Odisha, Uttar Pradesh, Bengal, Tamil Nadu and Punjab had urged the Union government to go slow on the implementation of the pay panel report seeking more time for them to augment their financial resources.

Considering that the government employees constituted a solid vote bank for the BJD, party sources said that the state government might delay implementation of the pay commission recommendations till the next general elections.

The state had taken nearly two years' time to implement the sixth pay commission recommendations in 2006.

However, state government employees unions are hopeful of the state government revising the pay scale by December this year. "We hope there is no delay. We want the government to look into the anomalies during fixation of the revised pay," said general secretary of Odisha Secretariat Service Association Krishna Chandra Mohapatra.