The Central Government employees are
planning to stage a ‘dharna’ on 25th of this month at Delhi protesting
the recommendations of the 7th Pay Commission’s report, which is
considered as being against their interests. S. Mohan, general
secretary, Great Assembly of the central government employees says:
“The Seventh Pay Commission has
submitted its report to the government. The demands of the 1.5 lakh
gazetted officers working in the various departments of censor, income
tax, railways, central tax, statistics and central secretariat have not
been met. And, no grievance cell for them has been sanctioned. The Pay
Commission has also refused to recommend setting up of the cell. And the
commission has also failed to accept the already agreed salary index
apart from rejecting the demand for a minimum salary of Rs. 26,000. And,
it has fixed the minimum salary on an approximate calculation without
considering the price index. The aim of constituting the Pay Commission
was to revise the salaries of the Central Government employees and
workers once in ten years. But, without taking into consideration the
revised salary structure, the commission has added only the dearness
allowance to the basic salary.
It is said that the salary structure
which was increased by 40% by the 5th Pay Commission and 50% by the 6th
was raised by 23% by the 7th commission. But in reality, only 16%
increase has been effected. The house rent allowance was raised to 30%
by the 5th and 6th commissions but, this amount was reduced to 24% by
the 7th commission. Travelling allowance as a whole was not revised,
only the increase in cost was taken into account based on extra index
figures to some extent, but not in proportion to the increase in the
actual cost.
The gazetted officers’ demand for bonus
has also not been accepted. Also, the commission has announced that the
increment to those officers who are in service for more than 20 years
would not be automatic but would be given only on the basis of their
merit. Also, the premium amount recovered for insurance has been raised
up to Rs. 5,000.
The pay of the gazetted officers should
be increased on par with the Rs. 5,400 grade recommended by the Sixth
Pay Commission. The gap between the minimum and maximum pay is very
wide; because the vacancies have not been filled up, the officers are
subjected to mental stress due to the added workload.
The Seventh Pay Commission has not
followed any scientific method in fixing up the volume of work for the
middle level officers. So, the officers have decided to stage a ‘dharna’
protesting the recommendations of the commission that are reportedly
against the interests of the Central Government officers.
Source: http://www.cgstaffnews.in/
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