Babus' having new pay scale charts

lo! Pay Commission is still discussing with various organisations and studying various reports and meanwhile Babus' in the departments are having a ciculation of imaginary expected New Pay Scales from Sixth Pay Commission. We have received one such copy from our sources and putting this for you to download and see it your self.

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.

Wait more for IR

Entire January of new year 2007 has been passed and no signal from Government side about interim relief to the employee. Central Govt. employees are eagerly waiting for IR. Our sources has informed that there is some file movement in the Ministry, but no action has been taken yet. Meanwhile there are many rumours regarding IR are floating around in the employee circle :

• that there will be IR @10% of the Basic Pay.
• that there will be a flat Rs. 1000/- IR
• that IR will in the two groups viz. Rs.1000/- and Rs.2000/- flat depending upon the category of the employee/officers.
• that total IR will be 10-20% of the Basic Pay for the entire term of Six Pay Commission, so Govt. will give this IR in phases and first phase will have 7.5% of the Basic Pay.

Insiders say that chances are more for the number 3 rumour.

But it has emerged that no IR is comming before end of March or early April. Since inflation is rising more that 6%, Govt. has to give DA also to the employee at the higher side, so for IR Govt. has make arrangement in the budget itself.

Give incentives to Scientists - PM

India's top sceintists last month rang alrm bells, pointing the steady attrition of scientists from Government institutions to the the private sector.

Responding the crisis Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday advocated incentivising research productivity of scientist and greater freedom for the bright young sparks.

"We can consider incentive payments related to the research productivity of scientists measured in terms of a variety of criteria" Singh added at a meeting of the CSIR Society on Wednesday. The PM also called for a review of the efficacy of the existing arrangements that provides for handling consultancy project and selling intellectual property right.

"Talent in today's world is very mobile" he acknowledged, noting the "concern" among leaders in the science and technology community about attrition of scientists to the private sector.

The PM's prescription went deeper into problems afflicting research in the country. For, one he made clear that scientists playing the role of administrators at research institutes may not always be a very good idea and suggested "managerial reform" at CSIR as well as other universities.

This also shows growing opinion among leaders and scientific community that Scientists should get some thing special by the Sixth Pay Commission.

Pay Commission started studies

It is learnt that the Sixth Pay Commission has initiated the studies for reaching some conclusion in the pay related matters. Floowing studies are being taken right now:

• Study on Feasibility of Performance Related Pay (PRP)-
• Study on Compensation Package
• Study on Terminal Benefits of the Central Government Employees

The first study is being done by by Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A). It is to be recalled that one of the member of the commission is Prof. Ravindra Dholakia, who is from IIM-A. We will go through these studies in the comming months.