50% DA
Merger and Retirement Age 62 - High hopes fading due to announcement of
election dates...
Merger of DA, Interim Relief and Retirement Age to 62: Hopes faded
Merger of
DA, Interim Relief and Retirement Age to 62: Only today's date is in hand
after that all these hopes have died down.
The
schedule for the Lok Sabha polls will be announced by the Election Commission
on today as media reported. The schedule will be announced at a press
conference by Chief Election Commissioner V.S. Sampath along with Election
Commissioners H.S. Brahma and S.N.A. Zaidi.
With the
announcement of poll dates, the Model Code of Conduct for governments and
political parties will come into force with immediate effect. The government
will no longer be able to take or announce any major decisions which will be
considered as sops to woo voters. This brings an end to all hopes of benefit to
the government employees. Earlier there were lot of expectations from the
central government employees that government will roll out sops. There were
talks of DA merger, interim relief and hiking of retirement age to 62. Even
various union leaders had expressed views that some of these may be
implemented.
The
employees especially at lower levels reeling under the impact of rise in prices
of essential commodities had considered these demands as genuine and expected
the government to do something. The only thing that the government did was announcement
of the seventh pay commission. And, it is not only election gift this
announcement also was in accordance to 13th Finance Commission's
recommendations and demands from various employee union/federation.
All hopes
are now going in the goal of newly constituted 7th CPC and employees have to
wait its Interim Report as Govt approved terms of 7th CPC with condition to
give interim reports if any. However the recommendations of 7th CPC
to be implement after Govt approval all these exercise will take more time and
expectation for merger of DA/DR from 7th CPC in view of coming pay revision is
also an illogical fact.
Then what
about Interim Relief?
The word
"Interim Relief" is not mentioned in 7th CPC terms of reference
approved by Govt.
Now 7th
CPC have to invite Organisation/Employee Union for representation/discussion
and merger of da and interim relief may be approved in this way.
Implementation of main recommendations of 7th CPC is not expected before
2016.
As per
media hype the government has given another election rarity as
announcement of 10% DA hike. All employees knows that this is only a procedure
that will be automatically done once in 6 months and is based on inflation
data.
Meanwhile
the confederation have issued a circular expressing the dissatisfaction over
the Cabinet approval of the Finance Ministry’s proposal on terms of reference
of the 7th CPC. Demonstrations are planned on March 7th across the
country and indefinite strike after elections. ( Read Government Refused to
accept the main demands: Confederation Circular No. 13)
Source:
www.karnmk.blogspot.in
[http://karnmk.blogspot.in/2014/03/merger-of-da-interim-relief-and.html]
