7th CPC
News : SEVENTH PAY COMMISSION MUST BE SET UP FORTHWITH
The
recent statement of the Minister concerned in the Parliament, that the Govt
does not propose to set up the seventh Pay Commission at this stage is most
unjustified and frustrating for the Govt employees.
Fifth Pay
Commission had recommended for a Pay Revision after every five years instead of
the past practice to set it up after 10 to 13 years. But the Govt did not
accept this recommendation.
The Fifth
Pay Commission also recommended for Merger of DA after it crossed 50%. Govt
accepted the same and belatedly implemented it from April 2004.
But the
Sixth Pay Commission did not favour even the Merger of DA after it crossed 50%
and the Govt obvious followed suit and did not Merge the same when it crossed 50%
in 1-1-2011 - in spite of the demand by all concerned.
As such,
the existing Pay and Pension structure have lost all the relevance and is
continuously eroding due to heavy inflation and defective system of compilation
of Price Index - which itself is out dated due to the changed economic scenario
and requirements of the Industrial Worker of the Country.
All this
makes it essential that the Seventh Pay Commission be set up early to
compensate for the erosion of real wages and to remove the serious Anomalies of
Sixth CPC Report - which the Govt and the Anomalies Committee have failed to
address as well as to bridge the vast gap of wages between the Government
employees and those of the Corporate Sector etc. all which are having a very
demoralising effect amongst the Govt employees and Pensioners.
Er.
HARCHANDAN SINGH
General
Secretary, IRTSA
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