New Delhi: The central government employees wait for a
better monthly salary is soon going to end. The Empowered Committee of
Secretaries is meeting on Saturday and finalize its review of the seventh Pay
Commission's recommendations.
The AK Mathur led seventh pay panel report, which was
released in November, had raised the minimum pay to Rs 18,000 per month from
currently drawn Rs 7,000, while the maximum pay recommended
was Rs 2.5 lakh per month from Rs 90,000.
The Confederation of Central Government Employees
& Workers decried the wage revisions suggested by the Commission as the “the
lowest in the post independent history of the country”, and said a “meager rise
of 14 percent alone was recommended by the Commission to be effective for a
long period of ten years.”
The Empowered Committee of Secretaries, which was set
up in January to review the seventh Pay Commission’s recommendations, is
meeting in New Delhi on Saturday and is expected to finally decide how the
monthly package of central government employees will shape up.
The Confederation is demanding the minimum salary of
Rs 26,000 per month. “The Staff side had computed the minimum wage as on
01.01.2014 at Rs 26,000, The rates were taken on the basis of the actual retail
prices in the market as on 01.01.2014 (average prices of 8 Cities in the
country) substantiated by the documentary evidence of Cash bill obtained from
the concerned vendors. As on 1.12016, the minimum wage work out to Rs 29339,
rounded off to Rs 30,000”, said the Confederation in its Charter of demand.
There are nearly 47 lakh employees and over 50 lakh
pensioners in India on central government payrolls currently.
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