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7th Pay Commission Latest News: No hike in minimum pay of Rs 18,000, central government employees might go on strike
In a bad news for central government employees, the government has reportedly refused to hike the minimum pay of Rs 18,000 as recommended by the 7th Pay Commission and approved by the Union Cabinet.
New Delhi, Aug 23: In
a bad news for central government employees, the government has
reportedly refused to hike the minimum pay of Rs 18,000 as recommended
by the 7th Pay Commission and approved by the Union Cabinet. The central
government employees are not going to get more than minimum pay of Rs
18,000 as the public sector workers have also demanded minimum pay of Rs
18,000 which will bring extra burden on government. Finance Ministry
sources working on the implementation of the 7th Pay Commission
recommendations, has made clear that there is no scope to change in
minimum pay Rs 18,000.
“The demand of
central government employees through National Joint Council of Action
(NJAC) for hiking minimum pay Rs 18,000 to Rs 26,000 may be considered
by the National Anomaly Committee but they can do nothing,” a Finance
Ministry source was quoted as saying by the Sen Times. The central
government employees unions have threatened to carry out an indefinite
strike if their demand of hike in minimum pay is not fulfilled. But the
government is in no mood to change mind on central government employees’
demand.
While the
central government employees want hike is minimum pay of Rs 18,000, the
government cannot accept their demand. It is because Public Sector
Undertaking employees, who used to get less than the central government
employees, are now demanding pay hike equivalent to central government
employees. Since the government is not in position to bear this extra
burden, it would not accept the demand of central government employees
to increase minimum pay of Rs 18,000.
“Now, it is
generally seen that Public Sector Undertaking employees get less pay
than the central government employees and they will demand to hike pay
equivalent to central government employees. So, the focus has now
shifted to PSUs- whether they would implement a similar pay hike for
their employees or not,” Finance Ministry officials were quoted as
saying. “If they hike pay for their employees, the central government is
likely to face difficulty in bearing this extra financial burden.
Accordingly, central government employees demand for hiking minimum pay
of Rs 18,000 will not be accepted,” they added.
The government
in July issued the notification for the implementation of the 7th Pay
Commission recommendations. The 7th Pay Commission notification
confirmed that central government employees 14.27 per cent hike in basic
pay at junior levels, the lowest in 70 years. The Cabinet also approved
the increase in minimum pay Rs 18,000 from existing Rs 7,000. But the
central government employees want to increase minimum pay from Rs 18,000
to Rs 26,000. The employees’ unions have threatened to go on strike if
their demands are not met.
7th Pay commission has just given a small hike in pay where as many anomalies !
Recent pay commission has just given a small hike in pay where as many anomalies are likely to arise .
Pay differences for Promotees and Non Promotees are seen and the non
Promotees found getting higher than the actual promotees.. eg. A person
who has been selected as Post Office Inspector in 2006 (6th Pay
Commission ) will be receiving lesser pay as against the person who has
failed or not opted for the Postal Inspector Post after implementation
of 7th Pay commission
Promotional loss are seen for officials promoted from 2800/- grade pay
to 4200/- grade up to 01.07.2017.. Officials can opt for next increment
for fixation if promotion falls before 01.07.2017.
Heavy loss for option to take fixation from 01.07.2017 and officials
have to forgo all the arrears of Pay Commission until their next
increment. This has caused greater dissatisfaction among the employees.
Promotion to next level provide only one increment and does not provide
any additional benefit. Even if the officials decline promotion they
would get the same in their next date of increment.
Hence Promotion in 7th CPC is total waste.
7th Pay Commission pay hike creates millions of unhappy employees
It 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.
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
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