New Delhi: Ahead of the states’ assembly
elections in May’ 2016, the Central government may implement the
recommendations of the Seventh Pay Commission after receiving the report
of the pay panel within this year, which will benefit 50 lakh central
government employees and 56 lakh pensioners including dependents.
“The central government will decide
execution time of the pay commission’s proposals after the pay panel
submits its report, which will be possible pre-election “special
packages” for West Bengal, Assam, Kerala and Tamil Nadu, which are all
due for polls by May 2016,” an official of the Finance Ministry said,
speaking on condition of anonymity.
Just like one rank one pension (OROP)
was announced by Modi government on 5th of this month ahead of Bihar
Assembly election despite huge financial burden to get majority seats of
his party in Bihar Assembly.
OROP announcement not only is
pre-election BJP’s special package but also Union cabinet approved six
percent increase in DA for central government employees on Wednesday,
making the total to 119 percent, on a day the Election Commission
announced poll dates for Bihar is a move that would benefit the BJP in
Bihar Assembly Election.
Accordingly, JD (U) leader K C Tyagi
said, “The Modi government gave a ‘political bribe’ to voters. I welcome
the DA hike for central government employees, but, I feel the, timing
of the announcement is not correct.”
BJP needs to win most state elections in
the next four years to gain control of the Rajya Sabha, where seats are
distributed based on the strength of parties in state assemblies.
A defeat for Prime Minister Narendra
Modi would harm his chances of consolidating power in parliament, where
his reform agenda is being blocked because his party is in the minority
in the Rajya Sabha.
So, Modi led BJP government is ready to give any sop to win states assemblies electons.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said on
August 30, that report of Seventh Pay Commission for central government
employees was coming shortly.
However, Chairman of the Seventh Pay
Commission, Justice Ashok Kumar Mathur told PTI on August 25, “The
Commission will submit its report by the end of September.”
Now, it is expected that recommendations
of Seventh Pay Commission, will be implemented before the announcement
of West Bengal, Assam, Kerala and Tamil Nadu states assemblies’ election
in May 2016.
The Seventh Pay Commission, which was
set up by the UPA government, was required to submit its report by
August-end.The government constitutes the Pay Commission almost every 10
years to revise the pay scale of its employees and often these are
adopted by states after some modifications.
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.
The recommendations of the Seventh Pay Commission are scheduled to come into effect from January 1, 2016.
The Sixth Pay Commission was implemented
with effect from January 1, 2006, the fifth from January 1, 1996 and
the fourth from January 1, 1986.
SOURCE - tkbsen. in
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