After the meeting with the Home Minister
today by the NJCA and further developments leading to issue of a Press Release
by the Government of India assuring consideration of the issues raised by the
Staff Side relating to the pay scales and other recommendations of the Pay
Commission by a High Level Committee. The NJCA has decided to defer the
Indefinite Strike in the background of meetings with the Ministers and the
assurance by the Government of India.
The Press
Release by the Government today is reproduced below:
Press Information Bureau
Government of India
Ministry of Finance
06-July-2016 20:50 IST
Government assures Representatives of Unions representing employees
of the Central Government that the issues raised by them relating to the pay
scales and other recommendations of the 7th Pay Commission would be considered
by a High Level Committee.
Representatives of Unions representing
employees of the Central Government had met the Home Minister Shri Rajnath
Singh, the Finance Minister Shri Arun Jaitley and the Minister for Railways Sh.
Suresh Prabhu in the evening
of 30th June, 2016.
They had requested that certain issues raised
by them in relation to the pay scales and other recommendations of the Pay
Commission be allowed to be raised before a Committee of Secretaries looking
into different aspects of grievances of employees in relation to the Pay
Commission recommendations
The Ministers assured
the Union leaders that the issues raised by them would be considered by a High
Level Committee.
