Centre junks ‘grade pay’ for ‘pay matrix’
The DoPT has asked ministries to reflect the recommendations of the Seventh Pay Commission.
The phrase “pay band and grade pay”, coined during the British Raj to
determine the salaries of the bureaucrats is history. Come September,
they will be replaced with the corporate lingo — “level in the pay
matrix.”
The change comes the Department of Personal and Training (DoPT) issued a
notification on Tuesday to all central government departments, asking
them to change service and recruitment rules to reflect recommendations
of the Seventh Central Pay Commission.
Introducing the changed nomenclature, the notification said:
“Consequential amendment in the existing service rules and recruitment
rules shall be made by the ministries or departments by substituting the
existing pay band and grade pay by the new pay structure i.e. ‘level in
the pay matrix’ straightaway without making a reference to the
Department of Personnel and Training and Union Public Service
Commission.”
The Department has called for a meeting of the concerned officials of
various departments from October 3 to 14 to take stock of the latest
position of the amendment in Service Rules/Recruitment Rules. All
central government departments have been asked to set up committees to
look into various pay related anomalies arising out of the
implementation of the Pay Commission’s recommendations.
The change in nomenclature implies a significantly new approach to
fixing salaries and allowances for bureaucrats. Essentially, creating a
salary increase matrix doesn’t have to involve complicated math or
nuanced employee performance forms. With three salary columns and
performance levels, pay matrix would involve creation of a sliding scale
for employees to continue to earn higher pay.
Earlier notification
As employees gain experience, levels of assessing employee performance
would become more vigorous while avoiding addition of more complex
elements to the salary increase matrix. That is the objective of the pay
matrix.
An earlier notification had said in cases where deputation is a method
of recruitment, the field of selection for deputation should reflect the
corresponding ‘level in the pay matrix.’
(With inputs from PTI)
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