New Delhi: Finance Ministry has said on Monday that 7th Pay Commission proposal will be placed before cabinet next month.
In January this year, the Seventh Pay Commission headed by Justice AK Mathur submitted its report to Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley.
Finance Ministry official involved with the process of 7th Pay Commission recommendations' implementation also blasted the media for reporting that the 7th Pay Commission proposal to be placed in cabinet this month. "The government did not talk about placing the proposal before cabinet meeting this month which was created by media.”
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He said on Monday asked not to be named because he was not authorized to release the information, “Empowered Committee of Secretaries didn't take a final decision of 30 percent basic pay hike during its meeting on June 13.
They want to move to two other meetings to make final decision for overcoming the difficulties to fix new pay and allowances, after which it will be sent for cabinet nod.”
The Empowered Committee of Secretaries decided to move forward with pay raises for the central government employees and officers during next meetings.
“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 said.
“The Secretaries group now is reviewing the Implementation cell’s observation on stakeholders' demands and the process of 7th Pay Commission implementation is in the last stage, hope to put up its proposal before cabinet by July,” he added.
The new pay scales of 7th Pay Commission will be notified in July end with a highest basic pay of Rs 2,75,000 and a minimum of Rs 24,000. It is to be allowed hike basic pay around 30 per cent and the fitment factor is likely to be raised to around 2.7, up from 2.57 as recommended by the 7th Pay Commission, he said.
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The basic pay for central government employees will have retroactive effect from January 1, 2016, but the allowances would be paid from the implemented date of 7th Pay Commission, he added.
The central government employees will get bonus and arrears ahead of coming festive season Dussehra, according to the pay scales of 7th Pay Commission, he confirmed.
The Commission headed by Justice A K Mathur proposed the highest salary at Rs 250,000 and the lowest at Rs 18,000. The commission also recommended 14.27 per cent increase in basic pay, 23.55% overall increase in salary, allowances and pensions. The increase in allowances was recommended 63% while pension was proposed to rise 24%.
After receiving the 7th pay commission recommendations on November 19, government set up a 13 member Empowered Committee of Secretaries, headed by Cabinet Secretary P K Sinha to process the pay panel’s recommendations that would put an additional burden of Rs 1.02 lakh crore on the exchequer.
An Implementation Cell has been created in the Finance Ministry which works as the Secretariat of the Secretaries group.
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