7th pay panel

The Seventh Pay Commission, chaired by Justice A.K. Mathur, will submit to Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday recommendations for an average 15-16 per cent increase in pay, allowances and pensions for Central government employees, lower than the 20 per cent suggested by the Sixth Pay Commission on the basis of which the then government revised the pay scales by nearly 40 per cent with effect from 2006.

“The less generous recommendation reflects that the economy isn’t booming now as it was then,” a member of the Commission told The Hindu . The Modi government is expected to revise pays, pensions and allowances, on the basis of the Seventh Pay Commission’s recommendations, with effect from January 1, 2016, for 48 lakh employees and 54 lakh pensioners.

Top sources told The Hindu that the report could not reach an agreement on “controversial” issues such as if and how the edge the IAS and the IFS officers enjoyed over other services should be maintained, and the report included multiple dissent notes from its members.

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Important Points:-

• Pay Commission is set up intermittently by government of India, and gives its recommendations regarding changes in salary structure of its employees
• 7th Pay Commission Chairman Justice Ashok Kumar Mathur Retired Judge of the Supreme Court and Retired Chairman, Armed Forces Tribunal
• 6th Pay Commission Chairman  Justice B.N.Srikrishna

Source :- The Hindu, 20-Nov-2015