New Delhi: Although the salaries of the government
employees will be paid in July as per the Seventh Pay Commission
recommendations, the arrears from January 2016, will be disbursed only August
onwards.
The central government is trying to balance out the
burden of the seventh pay commission payout on the exchequer. Implementation
of new pay scales recommended by the Seventh Pay Commission
headed by AK Mathur estimated to put an additional burden of Rs 1.02 lakh
crore, or 0.7 percent of GDP, on the exchequer in 2016-17, government has said.
The recommendations of the Pay Commission will have
bearing on the remuneration of 47 lakh central government employees and 52 lakh
pensioners.
There are reports doing the round that government will
payout arrears of only the salary component and not allowances.
The employees are anticipating at least Rs 24,000
take-home salary per month. In a meeting with the BJP’s labour wing Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh, Jitendra Prasad,
Union Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances, Pensions, had told
the delegation that government would positively look into the demand of the
central government employees. “The minister said we will consider the proposal
of minimum pay of 24,000”, said Pawan Kumar, Regional Organizing
Secretary.
The Bhartiya Mazdoor Sangh is the
largest central trade union organization in India, and claims to have
more than 10 million members.
The trade union also sought increase in the
Multiplication Factor and changes in the HRA.
The Seventh Pay Commission under
AK Mathur had proposed Multiplication Factor of 2.57, according to
which the fitment of each employee in the new pay matrix is proposed
to be done by multiplying his or her basic pay on the date of
implementation by a factor of 2.57.
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