kolkata the state government plans to introduce a legislation to bring all state transport corporations under one umbrella in order to ensure pay parity among them however in order to merge the psus under a common body the state government needs the approval of not only the high court but also of the centre since corporations involved in the same type of business will unit to cut down costs the state government has already been reeling under allegations of delay in salary of the corporation staff transport minister madan mitra said that bringing the corporations under one umbrella will help to sort out the problem of finances the salary structure of nbstc varied from that of cstc though both the organizations had an equal number of staff the state had to spend rs 2 crore per month as salary for nbstc while that for cstc was rs 88 lakh per month he said merging the corporations will help to do away with this discrepancy and also streamline pensions and the other allowances the minister added mitra said that ideally there should be two corporations one for south bengal and one for north bengal the group of ministers in charge of transport will take the final call he said the state cabinet has already given a go ahead to the merging of ctc cstc and wbstc under one umbrella on the allegations of delay in payment of salaries mitra denied the government had defaulted it is not true that the staff were not getting their salaries its just that it has been delayed he said he also urged transport workers not to commit suicide as that was no solution the state government is planning to bring in a legislation for merger of transport corporations as the transport department is planning to bring in a pay parity between the different corporations there had been allegations about delay in salary of the corporations and the merger is expected to hasten the salary process and it will bring in more financial now to do away with the delay new corporations are being planned with merger of some of the existing corporations but for it approval of the high court is needed even merger of the corporations need clearance from the centre as it is going to be a horizontal merger with the corporations involved in same type of business will unite to cut down running cost the state transport department this week was charged with delay in paying salary of the staff for this the merger is planned immediately the revenue of the transport department in october 2012 has increased by 42 crore than last october as the revenue turned out to be rs 100 crore transport minister madan mitra said that bringing in the corporations under one roof will help to sort out many problems he said that the salary structure of nbstc varied from that of cstc he said that though both the organizations had equal number of staff but