7th Pay Commission pay hike creates millions of unhappy employees

 seems that nobody is satisfied with their 7th Pay Commission pay hike. At every level there appears to be an upward pressure on salaries and allowances, everyone deserve more pay than 7th Pay Commission pay hike. The 7th Pay Commission pay hike has got recent media attention, while, at the other end, there has been debate about the hiking of pay on the recommendations 7th Pay Commission is proper or not.

According to the commission’s recommendations, the minimum pay has been fixed at Rs.18,000 and the maximum at Rs.2.5 lakh for the cabinet secretary, the country’s senior-most civil servant. The commission had recommended a 14.28% increase in basic pay and the cabinet went with ditto to it.

The previous 6th Pay Commission had recommended a 20 per cent hike which the government doubled while implementing it in 2008.

There has been widespread demand from central government employee unions to hike the minimum pay to Rs.26,000; but the government has not accepted the demand till date.

After the central government employees union had threatened to carry out an indefinite strike, the government had promised hiking minimum pay but they are not now in mood for hiking the minimum pay.

Inequalities in pay can be damaging. Excessive remuneration of top bureaucrats has been made to unnecessarily drive up average pay in middle-lower ranks, and dramatic differences between levels throughout government business can undermine motivation. In a wider social sense, perceived inequalities between groups leads to huge discontent and instability.

Aaccording to the notification  of cabinet approved 18 pay matrices, the rate of increase of cabinet Secretary’s basic pay is 178 per cent as he got Rs 90,000 (fixed) in the immediate past under 6th pay commission recommendations, while middle-lower ranks employees will now only get 157% increase of their basic pay merging dearness allowances.

The pay ratio between the Indian top most bureaucrat and the lowest grade employees in the 7th Pay Commission recommendations is 1:13.9, which was 1:12 in the 6th Pay Commission recommendations.

All pay commissions except 7th Pay Commission made up pay gap between lower paid employees and top bureaucrats from second Pay Commission 1:41 ratio to Sixth pay commission 1:12.

The first pay commission was recommended pay of the top bureaucrats 41 times higher than the government employees at the bottom. The top bureaucrats were given salary Rs 2,263 while the lowest earning employees got Rs 55.

Subsequent pay commissions reduced the ratio of pay between lowest earning employees and top bureaucrats from 1:41 in 1947 to about 1:12 in 2006, while 7th Pay Commission made it higher about to 1:14.

The cabinet has approved the hike of the basic pay but decided to defer the recommended 63% allowances hike in the government employees pay package and refer the matter to a committee headed by Finance Secretary Ashok Lavasa.

Allowances contribute a lot in the pay hike recommendation. If the allowance is not taken into consideration it will mean fewer amounts because the allowance which the commission proposed is very substantial.

The hike in allowances, which will give them more money in the pocket, the compensatory perks for all central government employees, which is likely to be paid from October 1 and no arrears for allowances (except Dearness Allowance) is paid, as per usual practice, the allowances is paid from the date of implementation. This also a cause of unhappiness in central government employees.

However, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said in the Parliament in this month, “The Pay Commission has put a burden of Rs 1.03 lakh crore.”

source: The Sen times

Seven CPC Pension Arrears Tool officially released by CEPT on 23.08.16

PENSION ARREARS CALCULATOR FOR PRE-2006 PENSIONERS

Official Link:

ftp://cept.gov.in/Seven_CPC_Pension_Arrears-Tool/

• Upgrade the Schedule database using pensionarear7paycommn.exl (which is in the Pension Arrears Calculator folder) .
• Run the PensionArrearCalculator.exe on the machine where Account PBS module is installed. 
• Income Tax wherever applicable may be recovered before arrears payment. 
• This application is applicable for only those pensioners who retired before 01.01.2016. 
• An Intimation regarding disbursement of revised pension may be sent by the pension disbursing authorities and Accounts officer which had issued the PPO so that the latter can update the Pension payment order register maintained by him.

Working of Application: 

• Select the PPO Number from the combo box.
• If the desired PPO Number is not present in the combo box, then you need to add the Pensioner through Account PBS’ Pension Payment module.
• If the Selected Pensioner is retired after 1.1.2016 then, you need to enter Revised Basic Pension and Commuted Pension Amount (fixed by the Competent Authority) in the Revised Pension textbox and Commuted Pension amount text box. If the selected Pensioner is retired before 1.1.2016, then automatically Revised Pension will be calculated and Old Basic Pension and Revised Basic Pension will be shown in the respective text boxes. 
• Then, select the period for which you want to calculate the arrears.
• After the selection of period, click on Calculate Arrear button and Save the arrears for generation of report.
• If you calculated the arrears for the pensioner whose arrears are already calculated and went for saving the arrears, the message will be popped with the details of the arrears and you will be asked if you want to delete the earlier record for the purpose of new calculation of the arrears. If you click on yes, it will delete the old records. Then again select the period, calculate the arrear and save the records.

Generation of Report:

• For printing the arrear details, you must first, calculate the arrears for specific period and save the records
• When you click on Report button, it will open a new window where you need to select the PPO number.
• If you want to view the arrear details then select the Screen option and then click on OK button. It will open the arrear details. There you can see the details as well as print the details

MODIFICATION:

• In case, if you want to modify any records for particular month, then go to Modify tab, Select the PPO Number of Pensioner whose arrears are already calculated , click on the record which you want to modify.
• At the bottom, you will find the existing entries in respective textboxes.
• You are restricted to modify Old Basic Pension
• After entering new data in the above fields, click on Calculate New Basic and then finally click on Update button.

Reports:-

Under reports we have three options:-

Detail Arears Report:-

• Select the PPo number
• The name of pensioner is displayed
• Click on OK .
• The detail arear report of that particular pensioner is displayed

Arears Voucher:-

Select the PPo number

• The name of pensioner is displayed
• Click on OK .
• The arear voucher of that particular pensioner is displayed

Pension Schedule:-

The pension schedule is generated under this option.

Delete Arears:-

By selecting the PPO number the arear generated for particular PPO number is deleted.

Adjustment:-

• Select the PPO number
• Enter the short or excess amount if any.
• The amount will be added or subtracted from the arear amount of that PPO number

Click below link to download

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Solution for the SSA deposit error - "Error:This office account can only be inquired from other SOL's" in DOP Finacle

• When we accept the deposit for SSA accounts sometimes we will get the error "Error :This office account can only be inquired from other SOL's" in DOP Finacle.
• This error we in general will face when we are accepting the deposits for inter SOL accounts in DOP Finacle.
• The error screen shot will be appeared as shown in the below figure

• From the above screen shot it is clear that system is showing the above said error.

Root cause of the above problem :- 

• The above said error will occur when we accept the SSA deposits of inter SOL accounts and also if that inter sol account is having the defaults then the system will not accept to pay the pending installments in other SOLs other than the HOME SOL.
• To know whether the account is having the default installments or not we can check in DOP Finacle by using the menu TIPM (Transaction Inquiry in Finacle Post Migration ).
• For operating guidance to use the TIPM users canclick here

Solution for the above problem :- 

• In order to accept the deposits of SSA account in any SOL first clear the pending installments in HOME SOL then the system will allow to deposit the amount anywhere in DOP Finacle application.

Some important Tips for the users :- 

• Always check the status of the SSA accounts in HACCDET before accepting the deposits of inter sol accounts.
• If the status is Discontinued for the inter SOL account then advise the customer to deposit in the HOME sol to clear defaulted  installments.
• Always be careful while entering the deposits for any scheme in DOP Finacle as the transactions will get posted immediately after creation of transaction by the counter PA.Deletion is not possible for posted transactions.
• By mistake if amount is wrongly fed or fed in wrong account then we have to escalated to SSPO's take the permission and proceed for reversal procedure.
• For operating procedure of reversal of SSA transactions users canclick here