Six Pay Commission | 30-50% hike for Rajasthan state staff

In an apparent move to prop up its prospects in the forthcoming assembly polls, the Vasundhara Raje government on Thursday played its trump card: it obliged over 7.3 lakh state employees by announcing a pay hike of 30 to 50%, which is even higher than what the Centre announced for its staff.

The hike will have retrospective effect from September 1, 2006. Besides state employees, three lakh pensioners in the state will receive the new pay package from the same period. However, the hike will not be applicable to employees of boards and corporations.

Under the new pay scale, the minimum basic pay has been increased from Rs 2,550 to Rs 4,750 compared with Rs 4,440 being given by the Centre. The maximum basic salary has gone up from Rs 26,000 to Rs 67,000.

The decisions were taken at a Cabinet meeting on Thursday. Announcing the new scales, parliamentary affairs minister Rajendra Singh Rathore harped on how promptly the Raje government had acted. “The central government had got the recommendations (of the Sixth Pay Commission) on March 24 but it took almost five months for them to announce the implementation. We have got it implemented in two weeks’ time after the Centre’s announcement.”

The new pay structure will cost the government an additional Rs 4,920 crore a year. The government will have to shell out Rs 5,764 crore to pay the arrears alone. “The decision will put an additional burden of Rs 5,844 crore on the state for the remaining six months of this finan-cial year while annual additional expenditure is pegged at Rs 7,320 crore from next year (to factor in the arrears payment).

“The state government has decided that the arrears from January to December for the year 2007 will be paid in cash this year itself while the arrears form January 1, 2008 to August 31, 2008 will be paid in the next financial year. The state has also decided to pay these arrears in cash,” said Rathore. Even pensioners will be given 50% of the arrears in cash this year.

Principal secretary (finance) Subhash Garg agreed that it would put extra financial pressure: “This year we will be able to manage, but from next year we really have to find a way out.” The first instalment of arrears will be paid by October.

An upgradation and grievances redressal committee has been formed by the state to settle any anomalies. The committee consisting of senior officials will submit its report within four months.

Soon after the announcement,a group of employees welcomed the decision. However, Yash Pratap Singh, president, All India State Employees Association (United), said they were demanding the revised pay with effect from January 2006.

 

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Sixth Pay Commission | Orissa sets up panel to study Sixth Pay Commission report

The Orissa government on Saturday constituted a six-member fitment committee to study recommendations made by the Sixth Pay Commission before implementing them in the state, official sources said.

The fitment committee, to be headed by Additional Chief Secretary cum-Development Commissioner R N Bahidar, has been asked to submit its report within three months.

The other members of the committee are Home secretary T K Mishra, Agriculture Secretary U P Singh, Water Resource Secretary Arabinda Behera, Additional Finance Secretary K C Mishra and Finance Department Special Secretary D P Das.

Though government employees have welcomed the state government’s move to form a committee to study the recommendations, it has rejected the three month period for preparation of the final report.

“The fitment committee should be given a one month period,” employees union leader Braja Nanda told reporters.

If implemnted in toto, the state government employees will get a minimum hike of 21 per cent in their basic scale of pay, Nanda said, adding they are opposed to 27 different scales by the Orissa government.

The state has to take an additional burden of Rs 1,400 crore per annum after implementation of the recommendations of the Pay Commission, sources said, adding that an amount of Rs 2,100 crore would be required if the pay fixation was made effective from January 1, 2006.

Six Central Pay Commission | Rajasthan Govt to take up Pay Commission proposal next week

The Rajasthan government will take up the sixth pay commission’s proposal for consideration next week, state Parliamentary Minister R S Rathore said today.

The Finance Department has completed the assessment after the Centre announced the sixth pay commission, Rathore told reporters here.

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Six Pay Commission | Pondy to seek grants from Centre

The Puducherry Ministry on Saturday decided to seek grants from the Centre to meet the financial commitments under various heads.
This was decided at cabinet meeting under the chairmanship of Chief Minister V.Vaithilingam, which reviewed the territorial government’s financial position.
After the meeting, Vaithilingam said that the meeting had assessed that as much as Rs 354 crore was needed to meet the expenditure under various heads.
There was shortage of funds for the government to meet the expenditure for PWD to provide infrastructural facilities (which alone would come to Rs 230 crores) and also for providing assistance to students joining professional courses in private colleges under government quota and for acquisition of lands for construction of buildings for schools and colleges,he said.
Vaithilingam said a detailed and consolidated report on the financial requirements of Puducherry government would be presented to the Union Home and Finance Minstries and all the ministers under his leadership would proceed to Delhi soon to seek Central grants to meet the expenditure.
Vaithilingam said the territorial government would implement the recommendations of the Sixth Pay commission to pay the employees enhanced wages as recommended by the Commission (retrospectively from January 2006).
He said that as much as Rs 350 crores would be needed to pay the forty percent of the arrears in the first instalment to the staff.Normally seventyfive percent of the financial commitment to pay the arrears would be met by the Centre and the remaining 25 percent would be met by the territorial administration.`We would seek the Central assistance as per this formula` he said.
The government had also decided at the cabinet meeting to construct houses for the tsunamit hit families in the coastal pockets in Kalapet block and as much as Rs 80 crores would be needed for the housing project.
The cabinet meeting also decided to withdraw cases filed against a number of persons since 2002 on various occasions of agitations and road rokos.
The meeting also decided to waive land tax due from farmers in the tsunami hit areas in the Union Territory in 2004. There would also be waiver of land taxes due from ryots who bore the brunt of floods in 2005.

Sixth Pay Commission | Madhya Pradesh Govt to implement Sixth Pay Commission from Sept 1

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan here Sunday announced that the state government employees will get ‘enhanced salary’ as per the recommendations of Sixth Pay Commission from September 1.

“The state government employees will get the enhanced salary on October 1 (for the month of September), as per the recommendations of the Sixth Pay Commission,” Chouhan told reporters after performing puja at the Omkareshwar temple, one of the 12 Jyotirlings in the country.

Chouhan was in the town as part of his ongoing ‘Janahirwad Yatra’ in the state.

Referring to the poll issues in the coming assembly elections, he said the ruling party will seek people’s decisive mandate on the twin issues of “development and people’s welfare”.

He highlighted his government’s achievement’s in the last four and a half years and claimed that what his party’s government has done for the people during the period, Congress was unable to do the same in the last 50 years of its rule.

Regarding India’s achievement in negotiating the nuclear deal with the Nuclear Supply Group (NSG) he said that the country has the right to conduct nuclear tests and that nobody would be able to take away from it.

To a question, he said that laws are there because of people and not vice-versa, therefore any law which obstructs the development of the people will be changed and added that his government has changes several such laws during its tenure.