7th Pay Commission notification to be issued after states polls
New
Delhi: The notification to put into effect the Seventh pay commission
recommendation will be issued after the completion of states assemblies’ poll
process as the model code of conduct is currently in place, sources of Finance
Ministry said on Wednesday.
The
assemblies’ election of Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Assam, Kerala and Puducherry
states, which will be held from April 4 to May 16 and the counting of votes in
the states will take place on May 19 but the model code of conduct will remain
in place till May 21.
So,
it is believed that the government will announce Seventh pay commission award
after the end of model code of conduct of states assemblies election.
The
government doesn’t want to give any chance to the Opposition to deter its image
in the polls and hence, sources, said that the announcement of the dates of the
the model code of conduct of states polls seems to be the cut-off point for
notification of the Seventh pay commission award.
The
Seventh pay commission recommendations will benefit 48 lakh central government
employees and 52 lakh pensioners including dependents.
“The
BJP led central government decided execution time of the pay commission’s
proposals in April but the Empowered Committee of Secretaries headed by cabinet
Secretary can’t sort out some anomalies of Seventh pay commission
recommendations like scrapping of advances, allowances and minimum pay before
declaration of states Assemblies polls,” sources said.
Sources
also said the Implementation cell of the Empowered Committee of Secretaries for
the Seventh pay commission recommendation in Finance Ministry works hard to
send a summary of the pay commission implementation to PMO for its nod. After
PMO’s nod, it would be placed before the cabinet for its nod through cabinet
secretary.
Sources
said the Seventh Pay Commission recommendations implementation notification
will be issued in June, after cabinet nod.
The
Seventh Pay Commission was set up by the UPA government in February 2014, The
Commission headed by Justice A K Mathur submitted its 900-page final report to
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on February 19, recommending 23.55 per cent hike
in salaries and allowances of Central government employees and pensioners.
The
panel recommended a 14.27 per cent increase in basic pay, the lowest in 70
years. The previous 6th Pay Commission had recommended a 20 per cent hike,
which the government doubled while implementing it in 2008.
The
Seventh pay commission recommended fixing the highest basic salary at Rs
250,000 and the lowest at Rs 18,000and its increased the pay gap between the
minimum and maximum from existing 1:12 to 1: 13.8
The
government constitutes the Pay Commission almost every 10 years to revise the
pay scale of its employees and pensioners, often these are adopted by states
after some modifications. However, the Seventh Pay Commission suggested to
discontinue the practice of appointing pay commissions in future.
