7th Pay Commission salary to be paid from August
New Delhi: The central
government is going to start payment of salaries to its 48 lakh employees
according to 7th Pay Commission recommendations, which are to be paid from August salary.
As per official
calculation, no huge amount will be required for the payment of salaries
according to 7th Pay Commission recommendations.
7TH PAY COMMISSION
SALARY TO BE PAID FROM AUGUST
The cabinet approved
the new pay scales for central government employees on June 29 after
considering report of the 7th Pay Commission, led by Justice A K Mathur.
“Central government
employees could get the revised pay from their August salaries and arrears are
to be paid ahead of festival season of Dussehra,” sources close to officials
working on the implementation of the 7th Pay Commission report said.
However, all existing
allowances to be paid as per the existing rates in existing pay structure, as
government referred all allowances including HRA, transport allowance to a
committee headed by Finance Secretary for examination of the 7th Pay Commission
recommendations on its. The committee shall submit its report within four
months. he added.
Shiv Gopal Misra,
Convenor, National Joint Council Of Action (NJCA) said that the minimum pay
recommended by 7th Pay Commission was not acceptable to the central government
employees and hopes that the high level committee, which government will set up
to look into raising minimum salary, would do the needful in this regard in stipulated
time frame i.e. four months.
Mishra also confirmed
from the Finance Ministry that the notification on 7th Pay Commission
recommendations is under process and it will be issued shortly, payment may be
made from August salary.
The NJCA is an umbrella
organisation of various Central Government employees’ unions, including
Railways, post and telegraph, defence, Income Tax and other central government
unions.
“The notification of 7h
Pay Commission recommendations will be issued shortly, so we hopefully say that
central government employees will get the increased salaries under the new pay
matrix from August,” a source close to the developments told The Sen Times.
Finance Minister Arun
Jaitly is also very much ready to issue the notification in this regard
shortly, he added.
TST