The
Seventh Pay commission will give a big boost to 50 lakh serving central
government employees and 55 lakh pensioners to submit its final report to Finance
Minister Arun Jaitley on pay hike.
The
Seventh Pay Commission will submit its report to Union Finance Minister Arun
Jaitley on Thursday.
The
eyes of the central government employees will be firmly glued on the Seventh
Pay Commission report, which will be submitted tomorrow.
“We
are ready with the report and will submit it on November 19,” the Seventh Pay
Commission’s Chairman Justice A K Mathur told PTI.
The
Seventh Pay Commission, headed by Justice A K Mathur, was appointed by the
previous UPA government in February 2014 for 18 months. Its terms was extended
in August 2015 by four months till December 31, 2015. The recommendations of
the commission would be implemented from January 1, 2016.
The
Seventh Pay Commission, which is likely to recommend an average hike of 15% of
basic salary in respect of the pay structure of central government employees.
A
central government employee’s basic salary comprises Pay Band (PB) with Grade
Pay (GP).
Accordingly,
the pay commission recommendations may also help central government employees
to fight with the growing inflation.
The
expected the seventh pay commission recommendations may also result in a decent
increase in the salaries of employees working in states’ government.
A
senior Union minister said that central government is ready to accept the
Seventh Pay Commission recommendations from the budget of the next year.
The
commission had recommended several changes like proposing higher HRA and other
allowances, allowing work from home for disabled and women employees, hiking
pay with efficiency, reducing Grade Pays, linking pay with productivity, performance-based increment, no increment and
promotion without computer test, proposal for introducing health insurance and
cutting down the number of gazetted holidays to three.
However,
The Seventh Pay Commission didn’t take a major decision of the lowering of the
retirement age for central government employees to 58 years old, two years
earlier than what the present law requires.
But
all things get cleared tomorrow after the submission of the Seventh Pay
Commission’s report.