Retirement issue sent to CPC : FM

Finance Minister P.Chidambaram informed the Lok Sabha on Friday (23/11/2007) the the Sixth Central Pay Commission (CPC) is expected to give its report before 4th April 2008. Finance Minister said that while the specific issue of retirement age did not figure in the terms of the Pay Commission, the government, however, had forwarded references of the matter to Pay Commission for examination. Altlthough the Pay Commissionm, set up last year has not been asked to consider the issue of raising the retirement age from 60, the commission is assessing existing and future liabilities for government on pay and pensions over next 3 to 4 decades. To ensure that the state governments are able to take the impact of any wage revision, the Pay Commission has also sent a questionnaire seeking details on several counts.

BSF Presentation to CPC

Recently, while surfing the internet, I found a web page exclusively for BSF's demand and presentation to the Sixth Pay Commission (CPC). This page has a presentation and suggestions made by the DG BSF to the CPC and I found it very interesting and informative. It has some facts which probably none of us might be aware of. The best part is the page is the 101 point recommendations to the Sixth Pay Commission by the BSF. Some of the points are very interesting and applies to other categories of the employees also. It also has employees perception survey and a questionnaire about the hardship of the policemen face.

Visit this page here.

States want Center to bear financial burden

States have responded to the Six Pay Commission's (CPC) questionnaire to the states about the financial impact of any pay hike of Government employees on the states.

The questionnaire has sought to know the impact of accepting the recommendations of the Fifth CPC on the finances of the state Government. The questionnaire has also sought to know whether the state government has set up any Pay Commission for considering the salaries of its employees either in the past or currently.

Some of the States has responded to this questionnaire, and want that Center should bear the burden of any Financial burden, which may arise with the acceptance of the recommendation of the Six Pay Commission. For example, Orissa Government is of the view that any financial implications arising out of the increase in salaries and allowances of the Government employees should be borne by the Center. This view is endorsed by many states at the meeting of state finance ministers. Majority of the state gone nearly bankrupt due to the recommendations of the Fifth Pay Commission and with great difficulty, states have achieved and economic turnaround and there is fear that any increase in salaries and allowances of government employees can shatter the government's finances.

States have been asked by Six CPC to send data for the past five years on the expenditure incurred on account of salaries, allowances and pensions of state state government employees, employees of local bodies and autonomous organisations.

Commission study on terminal benefit to employees

As mentioned earlier by this blog that Six Pay Commission is taking various case studies before comming to any conclusion. The Commission is now studying the various Terminal Benfits of the Central Government Employees to study Long Term Measures for Achieving Reduction in the Liability of the Government towards Terminal Benefits of Central Government Employees.

The study is being conducted by the Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore and is expected to be completed within a period of 7 months by September 2007.

Complete detail is available at http://india.gov.in/govt/cpc_studies.php#3

Pay Commission Studies the cost to the Govt.

As mentioned earlier by this blog that Six Pay Commission is taking various case studies before comming to any conclusion. The Commission is now studying the Estimate of the the Compensation Package for Government Employees and the Cost to the Government. The aim of this study is to assess the total cost incurred by the Government for Government employees in various grades and sectors. The study will take into account salary, various allowances as well as the other benefits provided by the Government to their employees.

This study is being conducted by the Xavier Labour Relations Institute (XLRI), Jamshedpur.

The Terms of Reference and methodology is available at http://www.india.gov.in/govt/cpc_studies.php#2.

Fill Questionnaire now

As already stated here that Pay Commission has invited public views and a questionnaire has been prepared by the Commission in this regard which has to be filled up and to be send to the sixth pay commision till 31st December, 2006.

This last date is now some days away and those of you have not submitted it till now, kindly fill this form and submit now. If you have a view or you want to express yourself regarding pay related issues then it is a good opportunity. If all of you reply then your voice will be heard in the Pay Commission, otherwise you may miss an opportunity.

National Informatics Centre (NIC) has developed an online version of this questionnaire for the Pay Commission which can be filled up online, this can be filled up in bits atnd peaces and you can take you time to think about any particular question. But you have to register first at the http://india.gov.in portal. You can click on the image and you will be redirected to the online version.

Pay Commission Studying Economic Condition of States

According to the a news article published in the 'Dainik Jagran', the Sixth Central Pay Commission has started an exercise to learn about the fallout of the implementations of Fifth Pay Commission recommendations in the states after getting inputs from the Central Government about this. States got nearly bankrupt after the implementations of the Fifth Pay Commission and Central Government had to intervene and had to help the states to recover from the economical draught.

The Sixth Pay commission is setup to revise the pay scale of the Central Govt. employees only and its recommendations are implementable to the Central Govt. employees only and for those who are under the control of the Central Govt. States are not bound to follow the recommendations of the Central Pay Commission. But by the convention, State Govt. increase pay of their employees on the pattern of the Central Government pay scales. Therefore, Pay commission is alert this time in regards to the implementation of its report by the states.

As per the story, the Pay Commission has asked the states for important information. A questionnaire has been sent to the states in which details of the effects of the fifth pay commission in total and on per years year basis has been asked.

In the questionnaire, apart from the overall impact, expenditure on the pay, allowances and pensions for last five years, GroupWise no. of employees and pensioners in the local bodies, Government and autonomous institutions has been asked. The states are also to tell whether they have made a law for the fiscal deficit or not. The states has to provide position of the balance of the fund, income and expenditure statement and advance analysis of treasury from the year 2007-07 to 2015-16. The pay commission is doing all this exercise to avoid the same conditions at the time of the implementation of the fifth pay commission.

Fifth pay commission was setup in the year 1994 and its recommendations were implemented from the January 1997 and after the implementations in the year 1997, the states face acute shortage of the fund as around 90% of the revenue started to consumed by the pay bills only. In the year 2000 some 13 states were not in position to provide salary to their employees. At that time central government had to help the states financially.

Source : Dainik Jagran