New
Delhi: The government is likely to give minimum basic salary Rs 20,000 of
central government employees while the Seventh pay commission recommended
fixing the lowest at Rs 18,000 for the central government employees on its
report which was submitted to Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on November 19 by
Justice A K Mathur, who heads the seventh pay commission.
An
official of Expenditure Department Cell For implementation of Pay Commission
recommendations said the government wants to make up pay gap between employees
and higher officers and to hike Basic salary at least Rs 20,000 from Rs 18,000
recommended by the Seventh pay commission,
The
government has no intention to cut current allowances and advances of any employees.
the government motto is betterment must be done by protecting the current
advances and allowances.
The
Seventh pay commission has recommended for abolition of various allowances
and advances like risk allowance, small family allowance, festival advance,
motor cycle advance, he added.
He
also said the government may not suggest any curtailment of the allowances and
advances being now enjoyed by the central government employees, and the gazette
of the pay hike, which is coming within six months, also would not do it.
The
central government employees at various levels have been complaining of the
abolition of the various allowances and advances.
They
also termed the Seventh Pay Commission report as a width pay gap discrimination
between employees and higher officers because in its report, the Pay Commission
has recommended to increase the pay gap between the minimum and maximum from
existing 1:12 to 1: 13.8
Every
pay commissions made up pay gap between employees and higher officers from
second Pay Commission 1:41 ratio to Sixth pay commission 1:12.
