7th pay commission notification
govt issues gazette notification relief to lakhs of central govt employees
The Union government has on Tuesday
published the implementation notification of the 7th Pay Commission. The
notification is dated July 25, 2016. The decision comes as a sigh of relief to
lakhs of employees who were hopeful that the new pay will figure in their
August salary. Central government employees will now get the revised pay from
their August salaries.
The Cabinet, in June, approved the
recommendations made by the 7th pay commission. Speaking at a press conference,
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley accepted the recommendation to
increase minimum pay from existing Rs 7,000 to Rs 18,000 per month. He
announced that a fitment factor of 2.57 would apply for pay revision of all
employees. And the rate of annual increment has been retained at three per
cent.
The government also announced that CBSE
chief Rajesh Kumar Chaturvedi will be given additional charge of chief of the
implementation cell of the Seventh Central Pay Commission. Chaturvedi will
serve as Joint Secretary in the cell for three months or till appointment of a
regular incumbent, an order issued by Department of Personnel and Training
said.
The pay panel had in November last year
recommended 14.27 per cent hike in basic pay at junior levels, 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 Central Pay
Commission recommended changes in the pay of around 1 crore individuals — 33
lakh central government employees, 14 lakh armed forces personnel, and 52 lakh
pensioners. Meanwhile, during a discussion in the Rajya Sabha, the government
said it is‘not
appropriate to compare 7th pay panel with previous ones’.
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