Cabinet clears four-month extension to
7th Central Pay Commission
The Union Cabinet today cleared a four-month extension to the term
of the 7th Central Pay Commission today.
Set up by the UPA government in February 2014, the 7th Central Pay
Commission was to make its recommendations within 18 months. Its term would
have expired on August 27.
“In view of its volume of work and intensive stake-holders’
consultations, the 7th Central Pay Commission had made a request to the
Government for a four month extension up to December 31, 2015,” a government
statement said.
Constituted almost every 10 years, the Pay Commission’s main task
is to revise the pay scale of its employees. The recommendations of the 7th Pay
Commission—slated to come into effect from January 1, 2016, would impact around
48 lakh central government employees and 55 lakh pensioners.
The Commission has already completed discussions with various
stakeholders, including organisations, federations, groups representing civil
employees as well as Defence services and is in the process of finalising its
recommendations.
Source
: The Indian Express
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