7th Pay Commission interacts with the delegates of CG Employees including Army, Air Force, Para Military Forces, Central Armed Police Forces

7th CPC team visits NE region to interact with stakeholders

The Seventh Central Pay Commission visited the North East region for interaction and to obtain inputs/views from the stakeholders, a defence spokesperson said.

The four-member Central Pay Commission (CPC) team headed by its Chairman Justice A K Mathur based its activites out of Shillong in Meghalaya for three days concluding on Tuesday.

During their visit, the team interacted with a wide array of stakeholders from Union Government services, including the Army, Air Force, Para Military Forces, Central Armed Police Forces and their family members, PRO Defence, Shillong, Group Captain Amit Mahajan said.

The focus of the CPC was to get first-hand information from various union government organisations, troops and their families deployed in different areas of the NE region, he said.

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7th Pay Commission Must Focus on Productivity, Work Ethics – The New Indian Express

7th Pay Commission Must Focus on Productivity, Work Ethics – The New Indian Express

The Manmohan Singh government’s announcement of a four-member Seventh Pay Commission for government employees headed by former Supreme Court judge Justice Ashok Kumar Mathur is clearly a sop for this huge vote bank on the eve of the next general elections. Considering that the sixth Pay Commission had been appointed in October 2006 the government could well have left it to the next government to appoint a new pay panel. The Eleventh Finance Commission had categorically said that pay commissions need not be set up routinely as their awards had a cascading effect on the finances of state governments. Evidently, however, the UPA wanted to earn some brownie points and thought it expedient not to leave it to the next government to set it up and walk away with the honours. It did not think a pay panel is a major drain on the exchequer. The commission is slated to submit its report in 19 months and recommendations will be effective from January 2016.

A key challenge before the commission would be to ensure that government salaries reflect productivity and performance within fiscal constraints. Implementation of the Sixth Pay Commission had increased salaries by 21 per cent resulting in an additional annual outgo of nearly `18,000 crore for the Union government, besides a payout of arrears of `30,000 crore. This had aggravated inflationary pressure on the economy. The seventh commission now has the unenviable task of addressing both the fiscal concern and the rising cost of living.

Besides the timing of the announcement of the Seventh Pay Commission being suspect it is of the same pattern as other liberal concessions to various sections of society on political grounds. The government should also introduce a hire and fire policy and pay its employees the best compensation like the private sector does. Having done that, it must sharpen the accountability in the government sector in contrast to the current pattern where there is too much security and lack of deterrent against indolence, sloth and lack of work ethics.

Source: http://www.newindianexpress.com

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The Prime Minister has approved the composition of the 7th Central Pay Commission

The Prime Minister has approved the composition of the 7th Central Pay Commission

Prime Minister Approves Composition of 7th Central Pay Commission Under the Chairmanship of Justice Shri.Ashok Kumar Mathur, Retired Judge of the Supreme Court and Retired Chairman, Armed Forces Tribunal

             It is really a happy news for all central government employees. The Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has approved composition of the 7th Pay Commission, which shows the central government‘s commitment to its announcement made by Prime Minister on 25th September 2013. “The Prime Minister has approved the composition of the 7th Central Pay Commission,” the Finance Ministry said in a statement today. The pay structure of the 50 lakh central government employees will be revised after the report submitted by 7th pay commission with effect from 1.1.2016.   

The Commission has been mandated to submit its report in two years’ time and its recommendations would be implemented from January 1, 2016.

The 7th Pay Commission will review the Pay Structure of about 50 lakh central government employees, including those in defence , Postal and railways, and about 30 lakh pensioners

The Finance Minister Shri P. Chidambaram has issued the following statement:

The Prime Minister has approved the composition of the 7th Central Pay Commission as follows:

1.	Shri Justice Ashok Kumar Mathur (Retired Judge of the Supreme Court and Retired Chairman, Armed Forces Tribunal)	Chairman
2.	Shri Vivek Rae (Secretary, Petroleum & Natural Gas)	Member (Full Time)
3.	Dr. Rathin Roy (Director, NIPFP)	Member (Part Time)
4.	Smt. Meena Agarwal (OSD, Department of Expenditure Ministry of Finance)”	Secretary

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