Seven days into September, the Punjab government was yet to clear the salaries of its employees for the month of August. Meanwhile, Punjab Finance Minister Harpal S Cheema on Wednesday said that the salary of the government employees has been released. "Punjab govt made 9,000 contractual employees permanent, due to which the process of giving out salaries to state govt employees got delayed by 3-4 days," Cheema said. "Everyone's salaries have been released today. 18,000 new recruitments done," he added.

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