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7th Pay Commission
Latest News – BMS met Minister for issues such as Removal of 5% ceiling for
Compassionate Appointments, 5% annual increment, rationalization of pay
structure, abolition of certain allowances, discontinuance of Grade Pay etc
A delegation of Labour
Union leaders representing Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS) led by Pawan Kumar
today held a meeting with Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for
Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER), MoS PMO, Personnel, Public
Grievances, Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space, Dr Jitendra Singh and sought his
intervention for redressal of their issues, mainly pertaining to grant of
one-time relaxation from ceiling of 5% for compassionate appointments in
Ministry of Defence and the 7th Central Pay Commission (CPC).
They also thanked the
Government for having brought in a legislation in response to their demand for
fixing the minimum wage for Government employees.
The BMS leaders pointed
out to the ceiling of 5% on compassionate ground vacancies imposed over Central
Government employees and requested that this be removed in order to make it
possible to accommodate more candidates. They submitted that Department of
Personnel & Training (DoPT) is the competent authority to grant relaxation
of the ceiling over vacancies falling under direct recruitment quota in Group-C
posts and requested the Minister to kindly take a sympathetic view.
The demand to
rationalize the pay structure through 7th Central Pay Commission was also taken
up by the BMS representatives. They stated that the allowances were allowed by
department as per their operational and administrative needs, but alleged that
the 7th CPC on its own initiative had declared them as “outlived their utility”
and recommended for their discontinuance. They also complained that the concept
of grade pay and pay band has been done away, which should be reconsidered.
Among the other points
raised by the BMS delegation were modification of the minimum pay and
cognizance of “Senior Citizen and Parents Maintenance Act”, which provides
liability of mother and father who are employed sons / daughters.
On behalf of the
Government Employees National Federation, an affiliate of BMS, the delegation
also sought attention to the fact that the employees are getting only 3%
incremental benefit which, they demanded, to be increased to 5%.
Dr Jitendra Singh gave
the delegation a patient hearing and said their observations and inputs will be
put up at the appropriate level.
Among other members
present in the meeting were Sadhu Singh, Shivkant Mishra, P.C. Sharma, Virender
Kumar, Yogender Rai, Rajnish Kumar, Nirmal Jain, A.K. Dhankar, D.K. Sharma,
Sunil Gupta and Manoj Kumar Singh
Source: DailyExcelsior.com