Jammu: An employees union Tuesday sought Prime Minister Narendra
Modi’s intervention for early release of the Seventh Pay Commission
award.
The National Mazdoor Conference (NMC) President Subash Shastri sought
the Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s intervention for early release of
Seventh Pay Commission award for central government employees and
requested him to ask the Empowered Committee of Secretaries (COS) to
early finalize the review of the Seventh Pay Commission recommendations
for cabinet nod.
Shastri has expressed concern over the slow processing of Seventh Pay Commission recommendations implementation.
Shastri also urged Prime Minister Modi to provide sufficient fund to
state governments for starting their preparation to implement the
Seventh Pay Commission recommendations for state government employees.
An Empowered Committee of Secretaries, headed by Cabinet Secretary P K
Sinha, has been set up on January 27, to process for implementation the
report of the Seventh Pay Commission.
The first meeting of the Empowered Committee of Secretaries was held
on Tuesday to formulate action points for processing Seventh Pay
Commission report but the minutes of the meeting were not released on
Tuesday.
An Implementation Cell has also been created in the Finance Ministry which works as the Secretariat of the Committee.
The 900-page report of the Seventh Pay Commission headed by Justice A
K Mathur was presented to Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on November 19
with a recommendation that the new scales will be implemented from
January 1 this year.
The pay commission recommended a 14.27 per cent increase in basic
pay, the lowest in 70 years. The previous Sixth Pay Commission had
recommended a 20 per cent hike which the government doubled while
implementing it in 2008.
The Pay Commission has recommended a total 23.55 per cent increase in
salary, allowances and pension, along with a virtual one rank one
pension (OROP) for central government employees.
The minimum pay has been recommended to be raised to Rs 18,000 per
month from current Rs 7,000 while the maximum pay, drawn by the Cabinet
Secretary, has been fixed at Rs 2.5 lakh per month from current Rs
90,000. For the Secretaries it has been fixed at Rs 2.25 lakh as against
Rs 80,000 currently.
The Empowered Committee may bring slight changes to the Pay
Commission recommendation within the government’s expenditure Rs 1.02
lakh crore in 2016.
In a significant recommendation, the Pay Commission’s report favored
introduction of a health insurance insurance scheme for central
government employees and pensioners and doubling the gratuity ceiling to
Rs 20 lakh.
Source : http://www.tkbsen.in/2016/02/employees-union-seeks-pms-intervention-for-early-release-of-pay-commission-award/
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