New Delhi: The Seventh Pay Commission drafted
in to make a new pay structure for the 30 lakh Central government employees
would not be able to submit its report in August this year, the Commission is
likely to seek extension till October.
The reports of Seventh Pay Commission will be
implicated from April next year as Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said in the
Parliament on February 27, “The 7th Pay Commission impact may have to be
absorbed in 2016-17.”
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said above
statement in his pre-budget speech. His statement indicates that the government
may implement Seventh Pay Commission report from April 2016.
The UPA government formed the Seventh Pay
Commission on 28 February 2014 under chairman justice Ashok Kumar Mathur with a
timeline of 18 months to make its recommendations. According to present
position, the commission will take at least 20-24 months.
However, the Sixth Pay Commission had
submitted its report within 18 months.
As a result of the recommendations of the Sixth
Pay Commission, pay and allowances of the central government employees more
than doubled as per Fourteenth Finance Commission estimates.
As such, the central government employees are
expected to get 100 percent salary hike under the recommendations of the
Seventh Pay Commission.
Issues like inflation, the government’s
financial position and salary structure of government employees in other
countries would also be considered as parts of pay panel recommendations.
The Fourteenth Finance Commission asked the
pay panel to link the pay with productivity, which will be the biggest hurdle
for central government employees to be got over to get salary hike.
It is interesting to note that the earlier
governments never accepted to link the pay with productivity.
Source : http://www.tkbsen.in/
