NAPE Ambattur

07.01.2017

7th Pay Commission: No arrears on allowances to Central Government employees

New Delhi, January 5: Central government employees eagerly waiting for the implementation of 7th Pay Commission will won’t be happy to learn that the Union Government has decided that ‘no arrears on allowances will be given to central government employees’ after the recommendations made by 7CPC is implemented. The 7th Pay Commission recommendation made by the committee will be implemented only after elections in five state comes to a conclusion. After Elections in Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Goa and Manipur is completed central government employees can expect higher allowances, a Sen Times report suggested.

According to Sen Times report which quoted an unidentified source from Finance Ministry confirmed that “No arrears on allowances will be given to employees”.

The announcement of both higher allowances and implementation of 7CPC will come after March, almost nine months after Union Government implemented the recommendations made by Justice A K Mathur committee.

In November 2015, Justice A K Mathur, Chairman, 7th pay Commission had tabled a report to Finance Minister Arun Jaitley recommending 14.27 per cent hike in basic pay, an increase in overall salary, allowances and pensions to be increased by 23.55 per cent. The increase in allowance will be higher by 63 per cent while pensions to rise by 24 per cent.

Justice Mathur had recommended of abolishing 51 allowances and subsuming 37 others out of 196 allowances, so the government hiked the basic pay but referred hike in allowances other than dearness allowance.

In October the ‘Committee on Allowances’ finalised the report but the government gave then the extension till February 22, 2017, to submit its report for getting normalised the cash crunch position.

The Election Commission on Wednesday announced elections to state assemblies in Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Goa and Manipur. In these five states, the election will start on February 4 and will end on March 8 and the results of which will be announced on March 11.

On Wednesday the Election Commission also made it clear that the model code of conduct will come into force with immediate effect.

The central government employees are getting allowances under the 6th Pay Commission recommendations.

Grant of one-time relaxation from the ceiling of 5% for compassionate appointments

Press Information Bureau

Government of India

Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions

05-January-2017 17:08 IST

Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh delegation meets Dr Jitendra Singh

A delegation of Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh’s Industrial Unit, “Bharatiya Pratiraksha Mazdoor Sangh”, 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 here today and sought his intervention for grant of one-time relaxation from the ceiling of 5% for compassionate appointments in the Ministry of Defence. The delegation also requested the Minister to issue directions to expedite the follow-up pertaining to LTC cases pending in the DoPT.

The members of the delegation sought to draw Dr Jitendra Singh’s attention to an earlier meeting with him wherein they had brought to his notice that there is 5.85 lakh sanctioned strength of Defence Civilians, but the existing strength is only 3.98 lakh as mentioned in the report of 7th Central Pay Commission (CPC). Thus, there is a deficiency of 1.87 lakh civilian manpower and there are about 20,000 aspirants who are seeking appointment on compassionate grounds. The members of the delegation recalled that Dr Jitendra Singh had given a positive response to them and subsequently also written to the Defence Minister to take cognizance of the issue.

As per an OM of the Department of Personnel & Training (DoPT), there is a provision to give compassionate appointment to one of the dependants for the survival of the family in case the employee unfortunately dies during the service period leaving the family behind. But the provision for such appointment is limited to 5% of the vacancies, as a result of which, according to the members of delegation, a large number of wards are kept waiting for appointment on compassionate ground because of the ceiling.

The delegation referred to an earlier letter written by Dr Jitendra Singh to the Minister of Defence, Shri Manohar Parrikar wherein the former had requested for intervention by the Defence Ministry so that the DoPT could accordingly proceed in the matter. They requested Dr Jitendra Singh to take up the issue once again with the Ministry of Defence so that their demand could be addressed. Dr Jitendra Singh assured the members of delegation that he would again seek the views of the Minister of Defence and try to work out whatever feasible.