Uniform Fitment Factor recommended by 7th Pay Commission
The existing PB-1, this index is 2.57, increasing to 2.62 for personnel
in PB-2 and further to 2.67 from PB-3. The rationalised entry pay so
arrived has been used in devising the new pay matrix.
The 7th Pay Commission recommended uniform fitment factor for all group
of Central Government employees. The commission says that the fitment
recommended by the VI CPC was in the form of grade pay. Any
inconsistency in the computation of grade pay or in the spacing between
pay bands has a direct bearing on the quantum of fitment benefit.
Therefore, these issues have also been raised by numerous stakeholders.
It has been demanded by a majority of the stakeholders that there should
be a single fitment factor which should be uniformly applied for all
employees.
The 6th CPC had mentioned that grade pay would be equivalent to 40
percent of the maximum of the pre-revised scale and that the grade pay
will constitute the actual fitment, yet the computation varied greatly.
After the implementation of recommendations, the difference became more
pronounced in Pay Band 4 as compared to the other three pay bands. This
resulted in varying fitment factors for various levels and promotional
benefits that were perceived to be rather differentiated. The same
pattern was discernible in the pension fixation too.
