7th Pay Commission to submit report on Nov 19 - Business Standard News

1. 7th Pay Commission to submit report on Nov 19 - Business Standard News The 7th Pay Commission will submit its report to Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday recommending increase in remuneration of central government employees as well as pensioners. “We are ready with the report and will submit it on November 19,” the Commission’s Chairman Justice A K Mathur told PTI. The 7 th Pay Commission was set up by the UPA government in February 2014 to revise remuneration of about 4.8 million central government employees and 5.5 million pensioners. Its recommendations will also have a bearing on the salaries of the state government staff. The Union Cabinet had extended the term of the panel in August by four months, till December. Government constitutes the Pay Commission almost every 10 years to revise the payscale of its employees and often these are adopted by states after some modifications. As part of the exercise, the commission holds discussions with various stakeholders, including organisations, federations, groups representing civil employees as well as defence services.

2. The recommendations of the 7th Pay Commission pay scales are scheduled to take effect from January 1, 2016. Besides chairman, other members of the Pay Commission are Vivek Rae, a retired IAS officer of 1978 batch, and Rathin Roy, an economist. Meena Agarwal is secretary of the commission. The 6th Pay Commission was implemented with effect from January 1, 2006; the 5th from January 1, 1996, and the 4th from January 1, 1986. The seventh Pay Commission’s draft report to determine the new salary structure for the 5.5 million civil servants in the central government has got riddled with several dissent notes. The notes, mainly about bringing in parity between the top-ranked Indian Administrative Service (IAS) and the specialised central services, argue that it will widen the talent base available to the government to deliver increasingly complex services to a demanding population. But the dissensions could exacerbate differences at the top of the bureaucracy in the Government of India, already reeling from the impact of pay-related problems for the retired armed forces personnel who have demanded ‘one rank one pension’. “There is a strong case for considering talent in the government rather than remaining confined to limited choices within some cadres,” former expenditure secretary Dhirendra Swarup told Business Standard. Swarup is one of the few non-IAS officers who became secretaries in the government, under former finance minister Jaswant Singh.