The government on
Wednesday said the concerns raised by central government employees’ unions on
the recommendations of the Seventh Pay Commission would be examined by a
high-level committee of secretaries
Representatives from
various unions met Home Minister Rajnath Singh, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley
and Rail Minister Suresh Prabhu on June 30. “They had requested that certain
issues related to the pay scales and other recommendations of the Pay
Commission to be raised before a committee of secretaries looking into
grievances of employees,” a statement said.
“The ministers assured
the union leaders that the issues raised by them would be considered by a high
level committee,” it said.
On June 29, Jaitley had
said that a committee under Finance Secretary Ashok Lavasa would be set up to
examine the suggestions of the Seventh Pay Commission on allowances. Of 196
allowances, the CPC report had recommended abolition of 52 altogether and
subsuming of another 36 into larger existing ones.
The government’s
statement did not clarify whether this committee is the high level panel it
spoke of.
The representatives of
the employees unions had earlier conveyed to the centre that they did not want
it to approve the CPC’s recommendations on allowances without examining them
further.
