Central Govt Employees Fear Delay In Implementation Of Pay Commission Award
New Delhi:
Central government employees are being promised bigger pay hike from
next year but implementation of the Seventh Pay Commission Award is
making very slow and painful progress.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley
Central
government employees have expressed frustration at this, and are worried
that the Seventh Pay Commission’s recommendations might not be
implemented on time.
The Finance
Minister Arun Jaitley promised in the Parliament on February 27 to
implement the pay commission’s recommendations from next year and said
“the Seventh Pay Commission impact may have to be absorbed in 2016-17.”
After receiving
the Seventh Pay Commission report, the Finance Ministry has set up a
cell in Expenditure Department headed by a Joint Secretary for a period
of one year with effect from November 20, 2015 for implementation the
recommendations of the Commission.
Giving one year
time to implementation cell to process the the Seventh Pay Commission
report to implement may hamper timely implementation as the cell would
be placed it before the cabinet for its nod through the group of
secretaries of revision pay panel report headed by cabinet secretary.
which is also a time taking process.
It is also
noted, the central government appointed senior IAS officer R K Chaturved
as the head of the cell after one moth of its set up.
There are
several states who have approached the Prime Minister’s Office, Cabinet
Secretary and Niti Aayog, seeking more time in implementation of the
Seventh Pay Commission’s report.
West Bengal,
Tamil Nadu, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh and Odisha governments suggested delay
in implementation of Seventh Commission’s recommendation for central
government employees will give them more time to equip themselves with
resources to meet Seventh Pay Commission Award for their employees.
The Seventh Pay
Commission had last month submitted its report to the Ministry of
Finance. It had recommended a 23.55 per cent increase in salary,
allowances and pension of government staff, involving an additional
burden of Rs 1.02 lakh crore in 2016-17. This is less than the overall
hike of the Sixth Central Pay Commission.
The Seventh Pay
Commission recommendations will benefit 47 lakh central government
employees and 52 lakh pensioners. It will lead to an additional outgo of
Rs 73,650 crore from the Union Budget and Rs 28,450 crore from Railway
Budget.
The new pay scales, subject to acceptance by the government, will come into effect from January 1, 2016.
The government
constitutes the Pay Commission almost every 10 years to revise the pay
scale of its employees and often these are adopted by states after some
modifications.
The Sixth Pay
Commission was implemented with effect from January 1, 2006, the fifth
from January 1, 1996 and the fourth from January 1, 1986.
Source:http://www.tkbsen.in/2015/12/central-govt-employees-fear-delay-in-implementation-of-pay-commission-award/
