kolkata government employees need not queue up to collect their salaries any more for the government has decided to pay its staff starting with the october salary the electronic way salaries will be deposited in designated accounts which the employees will be required to have in nationalized banksthe move will particularly benefit employees who are usually on field duty as they wont have to travel all the way to the head office to collect their salariesfirst in line are group a employees who will get their salaries for october on the last working day of that month later epayment will be introduced for all employeeslast week state finance secretary c m bachwat issued a notification for epayment which is being implemented to bring about transparency and to avoid delay in payment of salaries the health department has already started epayment on an experimental basisa senior official said that the primary aim is to avoid delay in payments there have been complaints that payments are delayed in some offices whenever drawing and disbursal officers ddos are busy in meetings or when they fall ill suddenly another objective is to prevent pawnbrokers from snatching a major portion of employees salaries state finance minister asim dasgupta had received complaints about these brokersan official said that with the recent pay hike there has been a substantial increase in the amount of salary drawn by government employees officials had to arrange special trunks to carry cash from rbi police escort is required while carrying cash from banks to the respective offices but police are not readily available so there have been payment delays for this reason as well a treasury official saidofficials said epayment would also help the government deal with the problem of undisbursed cash which was earlier stored in the ddos vaults for a certain period and then returned to the district treasury