THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: KSRTC has finally paid the outstanding salary for the month of July. Rs 76 crores were required for salary disbursement as employment tax and dies non had to be reduced. Rs 70 crore provided by the government was mainly relied upon for salary disbursement.

Rs 1000 rupees was given each for temporary employees and replacement employees and Rs 2750 rupees for permanent employees as festival allowance. The management had decided to give a salary advance of Rs.7500 each to the permanent employees. Officials informed that this will also be distributed by today evening. Efforts to disburse July pension arrears have also started today. The management held a discussion with the bank officials on Tuesday morning to speed up the payment of salaries.