Recently the central government announced the extension of term of 7th pay commission by four months till 31st December 2015.
By the time there were news started coming about seventh Pay Commission that it would ask one month extension to submit the report, Unexpectedly the central government itself granted four month extension to 7th central pay commission in its Cabinet Meeting held on 26th August 2015
One day before the announcement made by central government on granting extension to the pay commission, according to PTI news report, Justice A.K.Mathur, Chairman, 7th Pay Commission, said that by the end of September 2015 the Pay commission report would be submitted to the government.
Why the central government granted four month extension when the commission itself if asked one month time?
What will happen if the 7th pay commission submits its reports on 31st December 2015?
Before to answer that, It will be very useful to know that what happened in sixth pay commission, after submission of report and how much time it took to get announced the implementation of pay commission recommendation.
- The Sixth Central Pay commission was set up by Union Cabinet of India on 5th October 2006. The Commission, headed by Justice B.N.Srikrishna.The Other members of the commission were Prof. Ravindra Dholakia, Mr. J.S.Mathur and Member-Secretary Ms Sushama Nath, IAS.
- The Pay Commission submitted its report to Finance Minister P. Chidambaram on 24 March 2008.
- The United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Government headed by Manmohan Singh, approved the Sixth Pay commission recommendations with some modifications. In the cabinet meeting held on 14th August 2008, the Union Cabinet headed by Manmohan Singh gave its approval for implementation of the recommendations of the Sixth Central Pay Commission.
- It was announced that the revised pay scales will come into effect from 1/1/2006 and revised rates of allowances from 1/9/2008.
- The Gazette Notification for implementation of sixth pay commission published on 29th August, 2008.
SEE : Cabinet Approval for implementation of sixth pay commission recommendations
From the above reference it is known that after submission of report it will take six month time to get its approval from Central Government for implementation of pay commission recommendation.
The decision of extending the term of seventh pay commission could be a major blow to central government employees by the way as follows
1. The 7th pay commission has been made to submit its report on 31st December 2015. The stipulated time is extended as 22 Months instead of 18 months for 7th pay commission to submit its report
2. As the central government would like to ground upon the Precedents and it will take six month time from the date of submission of report to announce its approval for implementation of 7th pay commission recommendations
3. So the Cabinet approval for implementation of 7th pay commission recommendation will be granted by the Month of June 2016
4. Only the Revised Pay Scale will come into effect from 1.1.2016
5. The revised rate of allowances will come into effect from prospective date that is with effect from the day of Order is issued.
6. So the central Government employees will be losing the benefit of revised rate of allowances for the period of six months , which they supposed to get from 1.1.2016, provided the order for implementation of 7th pay commission will be issued on 1.7.2016.
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extension to submit 7th CPC is not sought by the commission. Govt om its own accord granted extension which clearly speaks the Govt desire to cut down the genuine benefits of the 7th cpc. now the period of extension granted is only under go alteration/reduction of benefits. by one way or other. Apart from that the present govt is not going to increase the IT Tax exemption limit. thereby the increase in salary will become subject to heavy payment of tax by the employee. hence all the staff associations must have serious thinking in this regard, otherwise the employees will be deceived fully. now itself the staff association must demand firmly increase of IT exemption for the financial year 2016-2017 in the light of 7th cpc.
extension to submit 7th CPC is not sought by the commission. Govt om its own accord granted extension which clearly speaks the Govt desire to cut down the genuine benefits of the 7th cpc. now the period of extension granted is only under go alteration/reduction of benefits. by one way or other. Apart from that the present govt is not going to increase the IT Tax exemption limit. thereby the increase in salary will become subject to heavy payment of tax by the employee. hence all the staff associations must have serious thinking in this regard, otherwise the employees will be deceived fully. now itself the staff association must demand firmly increase of IT exemption for the financial year 2016-2017 in the light of 7th cpc. it is a surprise that no association has taken cautious steps to prevent the serious IT implication going to be injected by the govt these aspects may be given wide publicity in larger interest of employees welfare.
This Government had a diamond opportunity to be the first one to implement 7th PC on time and has defaulted and made a mockery of its own image. Now it can’t expect employees to be efficient since, if a once in ten years decision can’t be taken on time, then shame. I see the following main reasons behind the delay;
1. Push burden to next financial year,
2. Due to OROP, fixation will be higher in future and hence will indulge in some jugglery to fix less (e.g Rs.100 planned will be split into Rs.80 and Rs.20 in some other form of allowance). Thereby all Govt. employees’ fixation will suffer.
3.Just like how OROP was announced before Bihar election announcement dates, 7th PC is aimed for four states’ elections in May.
What’s the use of NITI Aayog, meant to do away with tardiness in policy decisions etc.
This Govt is also playing game with all central govt emplyoees.
Just a few hours back I was discussing with my friends what the govt could do to postpone implementation of the pay commission recommendations. We were all unanimous that the present govt would not easily shell out any thing for its employees or for its pensioners. Let us wait and see how many more excuses come forward to deny the due benefits to the employees and pensioners.