Cabinet ignored key suggestion of Pay Commission
No more pay commissions should be set up, the panel had recommended in report.
Concerned over possible backlash from unions, the Union Cabinet has chosen not to act on the most significant and progressive recommendation of the 7th Pay Commission — that no more pay commissions should be set up and instead a more performance-linked appraisal system must be put in place.
Though it sent the set of recommendations aimed at rationalising the pay structures to the Department of Personnel and Training last week, no deadline or directions for further processing the suggestions were specified. “The reforms recommended by the pay commission are effectively killed … an opportunity to rationalise pays and link them to performance, and introduce meritocracy has been lost,” a top Finance Ministry source told The Hindu.
Wide gaps
The Commission’s report highlighted wide gaps between the pays of Central government employees and their counterparts in the private sector. A study it commissioned found that while a driver in the private sector typically earns around Rs. 12,000 a month, an entry-level driver in government service takes home nearly Rs. 25,000. Similarly, while government doctors with an MBBS degree get Rs. 80,500 a month, their counterparts in the private sector earn only Rs. 50,000. But remuneration of private sector doctors with an MD or MS degree and 15 years experience exceeds that of their counterparts in government: Rs. 3,70,000 per month as compared to Rs. 1,60,000 in the government sector.
Other recommendations forwarded to the DoPT seek to establish parity between the officers of the Indian Administrative Service and the rest of the cadres on both pays and promotions.
Source : TheHindu
Ajay says
Some department has authorised grade pay of 5400 after obtaining 4800 grade pay but defense accounts department is the one who has not followed the orders of sixth CPC and after seventh pay commission the difference will be huge level and scale. The Aao must get 5400 grade pay after four years of granting 4800 and then only fixation should be carried out in seventh pay commission.
Uttam acharjee says
Govt salaries are fixed by taking into various factors like price index of commodities and minimum requirement of a family based on various needs to run a family, international salary trend,skill and various other factors.These are fixed by the experts at surveying all the factors.Govt is trend setter and should force the private sector to maintain skill based salary for various category of their employees.So Pvt sector salary cannot be compared with govt salary.
Uttam acharjee says
Govt salaries are fixed by taking into various factors like price index of commodities and minimum requirement of a family based on various needs to run a family, international salary trend,skill and various other factors.These are fixed by the experts after surveying all the factors.Govt is trend setter and should force the private sector to maintain skill based salary for various category of their employees.So Pvt sector salary cannot be compared with govt salary.