The government appointed the Seventh Pay
Commission on 28 February 2014 under chairman justice Ashok Kumar Mathur with a
timeline of 18 months to make its recommendations. Though the deadline for
submitting the report ends in August this year, the SPC is likely to seek
extension till October.
The Sixth Pay Commission which was constituted
in October 2006 had submitted its report in March 2008. As a result of the
recommendations of the Sixth Pay Commission, pay and allowances of the Union
government employees more than doubled between 2007-08 and 2011-12—from
Rs.74,647 crore to Rs.166,792 crore, according to the Fourteenth Finance
Commission estimates.
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