Central government employees and pensioners, who have been eagerly waiting for announcement over the recommendations of 7th Pay Commission, will have to keep patience till July.
New Delhi, June 22: Central government employees and pensioners, who have been eagerly waiting for announcement over the recommendations of 7th Pay Commission, will have to keep patience till July. According to the Finance Ministry, the 7th Pay Commission proposal will not be placed in Cabinet this month. The government will place the recommendations of 7th Pay Commission in Cabinet in July.
Finance Ministry on Tuesday ruled out the reports that the Cabinet will take final call on the 7th Pay Commission proposal of Central government employees this month. “The government did not talk about placing the proposal before cabinet meeting this month which was created by media,” a Finance Ministry official, involved with the process of 7th Pay Commission recommendations’ implementation, told The Sen Times.
The government hasn’t given green signal to the recommendations of 7th Pay Commission as the Empowered Committee of Secretaries was unsure over the proposed 30 pr cent salary hike. The 13-member Committee of Secretaries headed by the Cabinet Secretary Pradeep Kumar Sinha couldn’t decided whether to it appropriate to hike 30 per cent basic pay in its last meeting held on June 13.
The Empowered Committee of Secretaries is expected to take final call after receiving more data by Implementation Cell. “The secretaries committee is likely to make a comparisons between 7th Pay Commission’s recommendations and the comments from various stakeholders on 7th pay commission recommendations, but they wouldn’t worry to go with the stakeholders according to the financial health of the government,” the official was quoted as saying.
According to reports, the new pay scales of 7th Pay Commission will be notified in July end. New reports suggested that the panel is likely to propose a whopping 30 per cent hike in government employees’s salary, making the minimum amount Rs 24,000, whereas, the maximum salary would be Rs 2,75,000.
The 7th Pay Commission, headed by Justice A K Mathur, had originally proposed hike of 14.27 in basic pay, 23.55 per cent in salary, allowances and pensions. The hike in allowances was recommended 63 per cent while pension was proposed to rise 24 per cent. After the recommendations of 7th Pay Commission, the government set up a 13 member Empowered Committee of Secretaries to process the pay panel’s recommendations.
47 lakh central government employees and 52 lakh pensioners will be benefited from the recommendations of 7th Pay Commission. The recommendations of the 7th Pay Commission will impact the Central Budget by Rs 73,650 crore and the Railway Budget by Rs 28,450 crore.
Modified Date: June 22, 2016 12:21 AM
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