7th PAY COMMISSION NEWS - CENTRAL GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES NEWS

Sixth Central Pay Commission committee members... The Sixth Central Pay Commission was set up by the Union Government on 5th October, 2006 to revise salaries of the employees. The commission was set up under Justice B.N.Srikrishna with a time-frame of 18 months. Other members were Prof. Ravindra Dholakia, Mr. J.S.Mathur and Member-Secretary Smt. Sushama Nath. The Terms of Reference of the Sixth Central Pay Commission which made it incumbent on the Commission to recommend systemic changes for, (i) transforming the Central Government organizations into modern, professional and citizen friendly entities that are dedicated to the service of the people; and (ii) harmonizing functioning of the Central Government Organizations with the demands of the emerging global economic scenario. Hence, the Commission not only evolved a proper pay package for the employees but also made recommendations to rationalize the governmental structure for providing better services to the common man.

Dopt orders on Child Care Leave as per 6th CPC Introduction of Child Care Leave to Central Government Employees An important clarification dopt order published on 30th December 2010... Click the images to enlarge...

Benefits of Sixth Pay Commission to Govt employees who retired before 1.1.2006 - Dopt Minister explained in Parliament regarding this issue...

Early Decision – No need to pay Arrears on DA and 7th CPC Decision in the right time –will avoid more funds to allocate as arrears! At last, the most eagerly awaited announcement of additional dearness allowance has been declared by the cabinet, due from January 2013 to Central Government employees and Pensioners. In general the announcement of dearness allowance has been made in the month of March every year. But this year this has been declared in the month of April. Though it was announced after some delay, there is no any loss, as the dearness allowance hike has to be paid with effect from 01-01-2013. Before this announcement, there was a rumour that 50% dearness allowance will be merged with basic pay or otherwise dearness allowance will not be hiked, but the cabinet committee decision cleared these doubts. Employees and Pensioners will get one more month arrear from January to April. Government has to allocate more funds as arrear due to delay. If the decisions concluded i...

6th CPC Highlights : Just a recollect the 6th CPC recommendations and the Government decisions briefly… Increase in the minimum entry level salary of a government employee to Rs 7,000 against Rs 6,660 recommended by the Commission headed by Justice B N Srikrishna who submitted the report in March this year. The total emoluments of an employee at the lowest level up to Rs 10,000 per month including allowances. Increase in the rate of annual increment from 2.5 per cent to 3 per cent and for achievers in PB-3 to 4 per cent. Three assured promotions, after 10, 20 and 30 years of service, for all employees under the modified Assured Career Progression (ACP) scheme. The hiked salary will be paid to the employees beginning September this year and the arrears in cash in two installments - 40 per cent this fiscal and 60 per cent in 2009-10. The Multiplication factor for fitment in the revised Pay Scale was 1.74 as recommended by the Commission, Government has increased it to 1.86. One D...

The 6th CPC have also recommended to abolish Overtime allowance, but the Government has decided to till implementation of PRI Scheme, OTA is providing in the existing rates. Over Time Allowance : Abstract of recommendations regarding OTA from the 6th pay commission report. 4.4.1 Prior to Fifth Central Pay Commission, all non-gazetted employees in receipt of monthly basic pay of upto Rs.2200 were entitled to Over Time Allowance for performing duties beyond the designated working hours. The Fifth Pay Commission had recommended abolition of Over Time Allowance for all categories except the Staff Car Driver, operational staff and industrial employees. The Pay Commission had also recommended that the staff deployed on weekly off days should be given a compensatory leave rather than any cash compensation in the form of OTA or otherwise. The recommendations of the Fifth CPC were, however, not accepted and status-quo was maintained with notional pay admissible in pre-revised (Fourth Centr...

Annual or Promotional Increment Calculation as per 6th CPC Annual or Promotional Increment Calculation as per 6th CPC for Central Government employees. This article explains the calculation of increment for Central Government employees and particularly, how to rounded off the fraction of rupee. Most of the Central Government employees are knowing that the calculation of increment, computing 3% of the basic pay (Pay in the pay band plus Grade pay) and it rounded off to the next multiple of ten rupee. That will be added to the pay in the band. As per the 6th CPC revised pay rules, the fraction of rupee should be ignored, but any amount of a rupee or more should be rounded off to next multiple of ten. The Finance Ministry order stated clearly that if the amount of increment comes to Rs.1900.70 paise, then the amount will be rounded off to Rs.1900, if the amount of increment works out to be Rs.1901, then it will be rounded off to Rs.1910. In case of any increment calculation whether an ann...