New Delhi: The gazette to put into effect the Seventh pay commission recommendation will be issued in April before the announcement of West Bengal, Assam, Kerala and Tamil Nadu states assemblies’ election in May 2016, which will benefit 50 lakh central government employees and 52 lakh pensioners including dependents, Sources of Finance Ministry said Sunday.
The reports of Pay Commission will
be implicated from April next year as Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said in the
Parliament on February 27.
Emboldened by the victory of Bihar,
congress said they will fight and defeat BJP in West Bengal, Assam, Tamil Nadu
and Kerala. ” Modi made promises one year back nothing got fulfilled.”
“The BJP led central government
decided execution time of the pay commission’s proposals in April, which will
be possible pre-election “special packages” for West Bengal, Assam, Kerala and
Tamil Nadu to win sufficient seats of states Assemblies polls, sources said.
After electoral debacle in Bihar,
Prime Minister, Narendra Modi harmed his chances of consolidating power in
Rajya Sabha, where his reform agenda is being blocked because his party is in
the minority in this house.
Rajya Sabha, where seats are
distributed based on the strength of parties in state assemblies.
So, Modi led BJP government is ready
to give any sop to win states assemblies electons, sources confirmed.
Sources also said the Implementation
cell of the Seventh pay commission recommendation in Finance Ministry works
hard to send a summary of the pay commission implementation to Expenditure
Secretary Ratan Watal for approval. After Watal’s approval, it would be placed
before the cabinet for its nod through the group of secretaries of revision pay
panel report headed by cabinet secretary.
Sources said the Seventh Pay
Commission recommendations implementation gazette will be issued in April,
after cabinet nod.
The Seventh Pay Commission was set
up by the UPA government in February 2014, The Commission headed by Justice A K
Mathur submitted its 900-page final report to Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on
February 19, recommending 23.55 per cent hike in salaries and allowances of
Central government employees and pensioners.
The panel recommended a 14.27 per
cent increase in basic pay, the lowest in 70 years. The previous 6th Pay
Commission had recommended a 20 per cent hike, which the government doubled
while implementing it in 2008.
The Seventh pay commission
recommended fixing the highest basic salary at Rs 250,000 and the lowest at Rs
18,000and its increased the pay gap between the minimum and maximum from
existing 1:12 to 1: 13.8
The government constitutes the Pay
Commission almost every 10 years to revise the pay scale of its employees and
pensioners, often these are adopted by states after some modifications.
However, the Seventh Pay Commission suggested to discontinue the practice of
appointing pay commissions in future.
