Central
govt employees in wait for 7th Pay Commission award: Prime Minister Narendra
Modi may make a formal announcement on 7th Pay Commission award in June
The
7th pay commission recommendations are not helpful for maintaining central
government employees employees’ living standard, Finance Ministry sources told
The Sen Times on Tuesday.
They
had also said the salaries of government employees should increase which would
give them some financial comfort, a step they had hoped might be taken within
in June, when government will announce 7th Pay Commission award with major
changes.
Sources
in the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) said Prime Minister Narendra Modi may make
a formal announcement on 7th Pay Commission award in June.
The
government has a plan to constitute a permanent pay commission, but Finance
Ministry officials are in doubt whether it will be succeeded.
They
also said the Finance Minister Arun Jaitley is likely to approve the proposal
of review committee, which will propose minimum pay Rs 21,000 and maximum a
round Rs 2,50,000 to Rs 2,70,000 to help central government employees cope with
the inflation.
This
will cost the exchequer Rs 1.02 lakh crore. However, in the Budget 2016
proposal, the government provided Rs 70,000 crore for the implementation of
Seventh Pay Commission.
“The
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley promised that the government will implement the
7th Pay Commission award in this financial year,” sources said.
The
government has made allocation in the current fiscal’s budget to meet the 7th
Pay Commission award which will require the government to spend Rs 1.02 lakh
crore in addition to existing regular salary.
The
7th Pay Commission headed by Justice A K Mathur recommended on November 19, the
highest basic salary at Rs 250,000 and the lowest at Rs 18,000 and its
increased the pay gap between the minimum and maximum from existing 1:12 to
1:13.8, while all pay commissions made up pay gap between employees and
officers from second Pay Commission 1:41 ratio to Sixth pay commission 1:12.
A
13 member a secretary-level Empowered Committee or review committee headed by
Cabinet Secretary P K Sinha was formed in January to review Pay Commission’s
report before cabinet nod.
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