SALARIES OF JUDGES OF THE SUPREME COURT AND HIGH COURTS INCREASED

The Cabinet in its meeting held yesterday decided to increase the salaries of Judges of the Supreme Court and High Courts. This revision has been necessitated because of the increase in the salaries of the Central Government employees on acceptance of the recommendations of the Sixth Central Pay Commission. 

The Chief Justice of India will now get a salary of Rs.1,00,000/- p.m. plus Dearness Allowance(DA) thereon. Judges of Supreme Court and Chief Justices of High Courts will draw a salary of Rs. 90,000/- p.m. plus DA thereon whilst the Judges of High Court will draw a salary of Rs.80,000/- p.m. plus DA thereon. This will be effective from 01.01.2006. 40% of the arrears of salary will be given in the current financial year and the balance 60% in the next financial year. 

The Government has also decided to double the existing limit of both sumptuary allowance and furnishing allowance for all the Supreme Court and High Court Judges. This will be effective from 01.09.2008. 

Necessary Government order will issue after effecting amendment in the relevant legislation. 

SOURCE : PTI 

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Cabinet to decide on judges’ pay hike

The Union Cabinet is expected to take a call on the issue of hiking the salary of the Supreme Court and High Court judges on Thursday.

The cabinet is meeting amidst reports that the plan has not found favour with the Union Finance Ministry. 

As per media reports the Finance Ministry, although seems inclined to approve a hike but is unwilling to do so as per the recommendations proposed by a three-judge committee constituted by the Chief Justice of India (CJI). 

Once the Cabinet takes a call on the issue, a Bill would be introduced in Parliament as the legislatures nod is required for any change in the salary structure of higher judiciary. 

Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishnan, in a letter to the ministry in July, had sought a hike of two to three times the present monthly salaries of judges of the higher judiciary. 

He had pointed towards the pay revision proposal for government employees under the Sixth Pay Commission and built a case for salary hike for judges as well. 

The CJI, at present, gets a monthly salary of Rs 33,000. The letter had suggested raising it to Rs 1.1 lakh. 

For other apex court judges, the CJI had suggested a monthly salary of Rs 1 lakh and favoured a similar pay for Chief Justices of High Courts. The chief justice had proposed a monthly salary of Rs 90,000 for High Court judges. 

Seeking better perks, the CJI also talked about raising the medical reimbursements for judges from the higher judiciary. 

Cabinet approves pay revision for central public sector enterprises | Snowballing Effect

The Cabinet’s decision to give the go-ahead to a pay revision for the employees of central public sector enterprises (CPSE) was a given the moment the government accepted the Sixth Pay Commission recommendations for central government employees. Just as it is a given that state governments will soon have to follow through with hikes for their employees and then for employees of state public sector enterprises!

The gravy train will then move on to sundry departmental undertakings and autonomous institutions , colleges, schools and so on. Indeed, it is precisely because of the snowballing effect of any hike in government salaries that such decisions need to be taken with a great deal of circumspection – and must go hand-in-hand with higher productivity and greater accountability.

So while it is certainly not our case that officials of CPSE be paid way below their private sector counterparts (and be open to poaching by the private sector), we are emphatic that higher salaries cannot be divorced from performance. Unfortunately , that has seldom been the case in India. Whether it is state-owned airlines or telecom companies, there is little regard for customers. Competition has, doubtless, stirred them but their service standards still leave much to be desired.

It is, therefore, good that the government is, for the first time, introducing the concept of performance-related pay, something that is very much part of the salary structure in private sector companies. While ‘performance’ is often tough to measure, especially in CPSEs where profit is not the sole mandate, an appropriate measuring rod must be agreed upon if the exercise is not become a farce.

While the new pay scales are applicable to all 217 CPSEs, in practice officials of 151 profitable CPSEs alone will be benefited. This is because the higher wages and salaries are to be borne by the CPSEs and that automatically rules out loss-making enterprises. The intent is good.

On paper this should incentivise loss making CPSEs to improve their performance and their bottom lines. However, pricing decisions are often not left to CPSEs; rather they are dictated by government’s politico-economic concerns. So it is unfair to penalise the officials for no fault of their own. That’s a Catch-22 situation. But in an election year, we know which way it will be resolved!

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