New Delhi, September 19: The special
committee that was appointed to look into the allowances recommended by the
Seventh Pay Commission, will submit its report this week. The Committee headed
by the Union Finance Secretary Ashok Lavasa, has reportedly finalised the
report and it will be submitted to Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley this
week. However, the conclusions that the committee has reached regarding the
anomalies in the allowances have not yet been ascertained. The Committee was
set up in July this year, after it was announced that the recommendations of
the Pay Commission will be implemented from this financial year itself.
The Committee to look into allowances
was constituted with the aim of looking into “the provision of allowances other
than dearness allowance under the 7th Pay Commission recommendations”, as well
as any other issue related to the matter. The allowances had been a major bone
of contention amongst majority of the central government employees, along with
the defense personnel too. After expressing dissatisfaction on the Seventh Pay
Commission recommendations, the forces chiefs had openly denied to implement
the recommendations, until the anomalies and pay gaps between their allowances
and the allowances of the civil servants were addressed. However, last week the
chiefs had reportedly agreed to accept the implementation of the
recommendations, after Air Chief Marshall Arup Raha had met with the Union
Defence Minister Manohar Prrikar, who had assured him that all concerns of the
forces will be addressed.
