7th Pay Commission: Government To Consider Minimum Monthly Pay Of Rs 24,000

New Delhi: Central government employees are likely to get minimum monthly salary of Rs 24,000 when the proposals of the seventh Central Pay Commission (7th CPC) are implemented. This is more than the Rs 18,000 recommended by the Commission, a trade union affiliated to the ruling BJP hinted on Tuesday, after meeting a minister in the Narendra Modi government.

“The minister said we will consider the proposal of minimum pay of Rs 24,000,” Pawan Kumar, Regional Organizing Secretary, Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS), said after meeting Jitendra Prasad, Union Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions

The pay panel had used a multiple of 2.57 to arrive at the minimum monthly salary for various grades, translating into a range from Rs 18,000 to Rs 29,200.

Kumar also said that the notification for the implementation of the recommendations of the 7th CPC is expected next month.”We are expecting the notification for implementation of the 7th Pay Commission in the last week of June, and payout to begin in July,” Kumar said.

The Modi government allocated Rs 70,000 crore in this year’s budget for implementing the proposals, the full year impact of which has been estimated at about Rs 1.02 lakh crore in 2016-17.

The less-than-expected hike had irked trade unions.

“We are opposing the report in totality as the real increase is just 16 percent and not 23.5 percent as is being proposed,” Kumar of BMS had earlier said.