Now, judges demand pay hike | Six Pay Commission

Judges in India are pretty powerful but now they want more power and status. It is informed that the Chief Justice of India (CJI) has written to the Law Minister asking for a pay hike to keep up with bureaucrats after the Sixth Pay Commission.It seems that the issue goes far beyond money.

The four-page letter written by the Chief Justice of India has created a flutter. Implementation of his request will first need the Cabinet’s approval and then the Parliament’s sanction.

The controversy is not about them wanting more money. The government doesn’t know what to do with the CJI’s request to bring his pay at par with the Governor’s scale.

Before the Sixth Pay Commission, the Chief Justice of India’s basic salary at Rs 33 thousand was on par with the Cabinet Secretary and Rs three thousand less than the Governor’s pay. Now the Chief Justice wants his salary to be hiked to Rs 1.1 lakh the same as the Governor.

The Chief Justice also wants a hike for other judges. Rs 1 lakh for Supreme Court colleagues and Rs 90,000 for High Court judges. That’s the salary of the Cabinet Secretary– India’s top bureaucrat.

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Six Pay Commission | Update | Pay panel to spread cheer among more employees

The government has extended the benefit of Sixth Pay Commission recommendations to employees of autonomous bodies, quasi-government organisations and statutory bodies. The benefit would be extended to employees of all such organisations whose basic pay and emoluments are similar to those payable to central government employees. 

In cases where pay scales are not identical, the department or bodies would constitute a “separate group of officers”. The financial advisor of the respective department would be involved in the group as the representative of the finance ministry. 

Final recommendation of the group would be taken by the finance ministry or the ministry of personnel and training for implementation. The accepted pay level would, however, be in no case more than those prescribed for the central government employees of similar level. 

“It has now been decided that the orders may be extended to the employees of autonomous organisations whose pattern of emolument structure as pay scale and allowances are identical to those of central government employees,” an office memorandum of the finance ministry said. 

Dearness allowance, housing rent allowance and city compensatory allowance are the main parameters on which the similarity of the two scales would be decided. 

Autonomous organisations and other such bodies would have to provide for 10% of the additional expense on account of pay revision through additional revenue generation, another 10% from savings and the rest 80% would be provided by the Centre. 

In case the organisation is not able to generate additional revenue, central government would provide 90% of the additional expenses.

Six Pay Commission | Service chiefs discuss pay panel report with Antony

The armed forces on Tuesday submitted their revised salary vouchers ending a month-long deadlock over their decision to withhold “discriminatory” pay commission report, paving the way for the personnel to receive part arrears just in time for Diwali.

Simultaneously, the three services chiefs discussed the ways for moving forward on the issue at their regular weekly meeting here with Defence Minister A K Antony, Defence Ministry sources said.

“The meeting today was a regular weekly meeting of the Defence Minister with the Services chiefs. But pay commission issues were top on the agenda of the meeting,” sources said.

The developments come after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh set up a three-member ministerial committee headed by External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee last Friday to consider their four core issues.

Also, Antony had taken a tough stand and asked the defence chiefs to accept the 6th Central Pay Commission (CPC) recommendations temporarily, after their decision to withhold its implementation.

Though the defence forces submitted their revised salary bills, the personnel would receive their first pay under the CPC scales only in their November salaries. But this would enable the government to pay the part arrears to the personnel before this weekend, sources said.

The Defence personnel’s salaries at old pay scales for October were already credited into their bank accounts, as the armed forces agreed to submit their revised pay vouchers only now, the sources said.

Six Pay Commission|70 per cent “pensionary weightage” to jawans

The government has agreed to restore 70 per cent “pensionary weightage” to jawans, even as Defence chiefs on Thursday intensified efforts to get “anomalies” in the 6th Pay Commission notification removed.

“The government has given in principle approval to reverting to the 70 per cent pensionary weightage, as demanded by the Services, overruling the 50 per cent recommended by the Central Pay Commission (CPC), providing much-needed relief just before this Diwali,” top Defence Ministry sources told reporters here.

Espousing their cause, the Services chiefs today apprised Cabinet Secretary K M Chandrasekhar and officials in the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) on the issues.

Earlier, jawans used to get 70 per cent of their last drawn pay as pension calculated on the basis of their 10-month average salary before retirement.

Under the CPC notification, the jawans, who form the backbone of the Armed Forces but retire at a relatively young age, are to be provided with the option of lateral entry in to the Central police forces and paramilitary and in return, they would get reduced “pensionary weightage” of 50 per cent.

In order to resolve this issue, Defence Minister A K Antony had written a strong letter to both Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Finance Minister P Chidambaram, particularly batting for the jawan’s pensionary benefits, reduced by the CPC.

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Circulars Related to 6th Pay Commission

S.No.	Subject
1	Recommendations of the Sixth Central Pay Commission – implementation of decisions relating to the grant of Children Education Assistance and Reimbursement of Tuition Fee.
2	Implementation of the recommendations of Sixth Central Pay Commission: Revision of the rates of Central Secretariat (Deputation on Tenure) Allowance and Special Pay applicable to officers of Organized Group `A’ Services on their appointment as Under Secretary, Deputy Secretary and Director in the Central Secretariat under the Central Staffing Scheme and their headquarters respectively.
3	Grant of Deputation (Duty) Allowance – Recommendations of the Sixth Central Pay Commission.
4	Revision of the pay scales of All India Services – Sixth Central Pay Commission – Seeking comments from the State Governments.
5	Recommendations of the Sixth Central Pay Commission-implementation of decisions relating to Special Allowance for child care for women with disabilities and Education Allowance for disabled children of Govt. employees.
6	Recommendations of the Sixth Central Pay Commission relating to enhancement of the quantum of Maternity Leave and introduction of Child Care Leave in respect of Central Government employees.
7	Grant of increased rate of Washing Allowance to common categories of Group `C’ and `D’ employees of various Ministries/ Departments.
8	Recommendations of 6th Central Pay Commission – Applicability for revised Group `D’ pay scales to Casual Labourers with Temporary Status.
9	IAS (Pay) 2nd Amendment Rules, 2008
10	Sixth Central Pay Commission – Recommendations relating to LTC – Acceptance of.

Related to Pension

S.No.	Subject
1	Revision of Pension of pre-2006 Pensioners/Family Pensioners
2	Revision of Pension of post-2006 Pensioners/Family Pensioners
3	Resolution

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After Tatas, Infosys may also rethink on West Bengal plans

Amid Tatas continuing to suspend work at their Nano plant in Singur, IT major Infosys on Monday said it is watching the developments closely and will reconsider its plans in West Bengal if needed.

Infosys’s views followed Tata Motors’ announcement earlier in the day that they would keep work suspended at the Nano plant as they were “distressed” at the limited clarity on the outcome of talks between the state and agitators to end the protest disrupting the low-cost car project.

Reacting to the developments, Infosys’ board member and human resources chief Mohandas Pai said, “Singur has created a fear in the minds of India Inc. We are watching the development very closely.”

“We have neither pulled out nor planning to. We will rethink and reconsider the situation if need be,” he added.

Earlier in the day, a private TV channel reported that Infosys was having a rethink over its plans in the state in the wake of Singur controversy.

“Singur has happened and we have seen what the impact is. It is very sad what has happened in West Bengal… People are scared, employees are scared… It is causing a rethink at this point of time, as is for all companies in India,” channel quoted Pai as saying.

He said fear element was high in the state and anyone not agreeing with the government could create a problem.

“We have seen what is happening there and obviously there is a fear psychosis. We are watching and waiting to see what will happen finally,” Pai said, adding, “it will take some time for anybody to come to a conclusion.”

Tata Motors on Monday sought to know from West Bengal the actual position concerned over Trinamool leaders’ claim that land would be given back from inside the main project site.

However, the government ruled out any change related to plant of Tata Motors or other vendors.

Sixth Central Pay Commission : Latest Updates

Pay panel award modification to cost additional Rs. 11,000 crore

Government will pay its 50 lakh strong workforce an additional Rs 11,000 crore over the pay hike of Rs 30,000 crore, including arrears recommended by the Sixth Pay Commission in March.

The modification of the Pay Commission award will cost the exchequer an additional Rs 5,000 crore towards annual wages and Rs 6,000 crore towards arrears, said Expenditure Secretary Sushma Nath.

The original recommendations of the Sixth Pay Commission would have entailed an additional expenditure of Rs 12,000 crore in annual wage bill and Rs 18,000 crore towards arrears.

However, prompted by the protest from several quarters, including representations from the defence forces, the government appointed a high-powered committee under the chairmanship of Cabinet Secretary K M Chandrasekhar to suggest improvement in the Pay Commission award.

Full Pension at 20 years of service

In a development that could well encourage more civil servants and armed forces personnel to opt for careers in the private sector, the government has decided to grant full pension benefits to all government employees who leave after 20 years in service, against the current 33 years.

The Union Cabinet has accepted this proposal, along with other recommendations of the Sixth Pay Commission on pension benefits for the estimated 3.84 million central government pensioners at a meeting here on Thursday. Experts said the reduction in the number of years of service to 20 years to earn full pension benefit was a liberal move and would end stagnation in government service.

Government officials told Business Standard that several other recommendations have also been accepted. These include raising the gratuity limit to Rs 10 lakh, higher pension for octogenarians, exclusion of earned leave encashed while in service from the overall limit, clubbing of earned leave and half-day pay leave for encashment.

Pensioners to get 40% raise, more gains for octogenarians.

Octogenarians will now be paid an additional 20 per cent of their basic pension, while those aged 85 will get 30 per cent more, rising to 100 per cent additional pension for centurions.

Officials said the final award for pensioners accepted by the government implied that central government pensioners would receive an overall increase of 40 per cent in pension. As a result the total estimated pension liability of nearly Rs 29,900 crore of the central government will go up by nearly Rs 1,400 crore annually.

Based on the Invest India Incomes and Savings Survey, 2007, it is estimated that 5.3 per cent central government employees (170,000) are likely to retire in the two years till 2009-10.

Another proposal to change the commutation formula and outsource the process to public sector banks, which would have saved the government Rs 2,344 crore annually, is also likely to have been accepted. If implemented, the government will bear only a notional subsidy on account of the interest payable to banks by employees who decide to commute a part of their pension, against the entire amount plus interest.

The central government had estimated 3,321,210 employees (excluding defence personnel) on its rolls in 2007, with the number projected to go up marginally to 3,329,682 in 2008.

What the Cabinet didn’t accept from Pay Panel

While the Government announced an average around 21 percent pay hike for central government employees to keep them in good humour as elections are near, it also rejected some proposals.
Sources said the Cabinet turned down the proposal of offering “liberal severance package” to government servants planning to quit the service after putting in 15 years and before completing 20 years without pension benefits.
The proposed move could have not only offered government servants some flexibility to proceed for better opportunities outside the public sector but also allowed the government to recruit fresh talent. However, even the Committee of Secretaries set up under the Cabinet Secretary rejected the proposal without citing any substantial reason.
Similarly, sources said the Government also declined to offer the women and disabled flexitime job engagement a long-pending demand with the Government. The issue was not even raised by any minister at the meeting that approved the pay hike.
However, one rejection by the Government should make the employees happy. The Cabinet declined to reduce the gazetted number of holidays to three Independence Day. Republic Day and Gandhi Jayanti and decided to continue with the existing number of gazetted holidays in a year.
However, the Government decided to process separately the issues like general insurance and health insurance.

Pay and Arrears

The following details are considered in addition to the report provided by the sixth pay commission:

• Fitment based on multiplication factor of 1.86 instead of 1.74
• Annual increment of 3% given in July
• Lowest transport allowance of Rs. 600/- instead of Rs. 400/-
• The following DA rates are considered*. – 0%- 1.1.06; 2%- 1.7.06; 6%- 1.1.07; 9%- 1.7.07; 12%- 1.1.08 and 16%- 1.7.08 onwards

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