New Delhi: The Seventh Pay Commission drafted
in to make a new pay structure for the 30 lakh Central government employees
would not be able to submit its report in August this year, the Commission is
likely to seek extension till October.
The reports of
Seventh Pay Commission will be implicated from April next year as Finance
Minister Arun Jaitley said in the Parliament on February 27, “The 7th Pay
Commission impact may have to be absorbed in 2016-17.”
Finance Minister
Arun Jaitley said above statement in his pre-budget speech. His statement
indicates that the government may implement Seventh Pay Commission report from
April 2016.
The UPA government
formed the Seventh Pay Commission on 28 February 2014 under chairman justice
Ashok Kumar Mathur with a timeline of 18 months to make its recommendations.
According to present position, the commission will take at least 20-24 months.
However, the Sixth
Pay Commission had submitted its report within 18 months.
As a result of the
recommendations of the Sixth Pay Commission, pay and allowances of the central
government employees more than doubled as per Fourteenth Finance Commission
estimates.
As such, the
central government employees are expected to get 100 percent salary hike under
the recommendations of the Seventh Pay Commission.
Issues like
inflation, the government’s financial position and salary structure of
government employees in other countries would also be considered as parts of
pay panel recommendations.
The Fourteenth
Finance Commission asked the pay panel to link the pay with productivity, which
will be the biggest hurdle for central government employees to be got over to
get salary hike.
It is interesting
to note that the earlier governments never accepted to link the pay with
productivity.
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