Jamai Shashti

The West Bengal government has decided to give an additional 18 per cent Dearness Allowance (DA) to state government employees from January next year. The announcement came on Jamai Shashti --- or 'Day of the Son-in-Law' --- when married men employed by the state government have been given half a day's paid leave in line with the perk announced fiv...

Married men employed by the West Bengal government have just got a bonus. A half-day holiday on 19 June on the occasion of Jamai Shashti which - like Mothers and Fathers and Valentine's Day - the quaint Bengali celebration of the Son-in-Law's Day or the Day of the Damaad.

The West Bengal government has decided to give an additional 18 per cent Dearness Allowance (DA) to state government employees from January next year. The announcement came on Jamai Shashti --- or 'Day of the Son-in-Law' --- when married men employed by the state government have been given half a day's paid leave in line with the perk announced fiv...

Married men employed by the West Bengal government have just got a bonus. A half-day holiday on 19 June on the occasion of Jamai Shashti which - like Mothers and Fathers and Valentine's Day - the quaint Bengali celebration of the Son-in-Law's Day or the Day of the Damaad.