Pay government salaries on the first of every month

The manifesto highlights promised that salaries of government employees would be paid on the first of every month. More than two years on, this specific commitment is not being met: reporting in mid-2026 documented recurring delays in salaries and honorariums across several sections of the workforce, with contract workers, anganwadi staff, employment-guarantee personnel, gram panchayat representatives and pensioners among the worst affected, and salaries frequently credited well after the first of the month despite Finance Department directions for timely disbursal. Because the promised payment timing is a specific, measurable commitment that is being systematically missed rather than delivered, the verdict is broken; salaries are eventually paid, so a partial reading is defensible, but the first-of-month guarantee itself is not honoured. Budget: reporting indicated the sums required to clear the lowest-rung arrears were relatively small, pointing to cash-flow management rather than a single allocation gap. [source to be replaced: delay evidence rests on a source outside the strict approved list and should be upgraded when an approved source is available]