7th Pay Commission – New Allowances ‘Likely’ to be Paid from October 1 – This development comes days after the second meeting of the committee on allowances which was held on September 1.
7th
Pay Commission allowances for all central government employees under the new
pay matrix will be implemented from October 1, 2016, a top Finance Ministry’s
official told in anonymous.
Central
Government employees will be receiving the revised allowances from October
1, 2016. The recommendations of the 7th Pay Commission covers some 48 lakh
Central government employees and 52 lakh pensioners. “This development comes
days after the second meeting of the committee on allowances which was held on
September 1, following which the employees will now get the new allowances with
their October salaries,” he said.
Under
the chairmanship of Union Secretary, the Committee on Allowances met
with representatives of the Central government unions on September 1. The committee
is likely to submit its report to the Finance Minister Arun Jaitley within a
week.
The
central government employees union leader Shiv Gopal Mishra also said after the
meeting, “Let us believe that, after the meeting, report of the said committee
would be sent to the Government of India for its acceptance.”
A
press release issued by the government after the Cabinet approval to Pay
Commission recommendations had said: “The 7th Pay Commission examined a
total of 196 existing allowances and, by way of rationalisation, recommended
the abolition of 51 allowances and subsuming of 37 allowances. Given the
significant changes in the existing provisions for allowances which may have
wide-ranging implications, the Cabinet decided to constitute a Committee headed
by Finance Secretary for further examination of the recommendations of 7th pay
commission on allowances.”
“Allowances
contribute 63 percent in the pay hike recommendation. The allowances which the
commission proposed is very substantial. So, the central government employees
now get a little hike in pay but the finance ministry will soon move the
Cabinet with changes in allowances providing for full compensation to the
central government employees after getting the report from the committee on
allowances,” said the official.
The
sources indicate that no arrears for allowances will be paid, as per usual
practice, the allowances would be paid from the date of implementation.
However,
the central government employees unions demanded for implementation of the allowances
with retrospective effect from January 2016.
Source:
gconnect
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