Not considering proposal to set up
7th Pay Commission: GovtNEW DELHI:
Admitting that there have been demands for setting up of 7th Pay Commission,
government said that no such proposal is under consideration for such exercise,
which would have been resulted in upward revision of centre's over 85 lakh
employees' and pensioners' pay scales.
"The
recommendations of the previous .. 6th Central Pay Commission were given effect
to from January 1, 2006. Therefore, at present no proposal to constitute the
7th Pay Commission is under consideration of the government," Minister of
State for Finance Namo Narain Meena told Lok Sahba on Friday in a written
reply.
Meena
further said, "There have been some demands received for setting up of the
7th Central Pay Commission. In the past, there has generally been a gap of a
minimum 10 years between two successive Pay Commissions.
According
the information available, the central government employees had also gone for a
day long token strike for their various demands including setting up of 7th Pay
Commission in December last year.
At present
the number of central government employees and pensioners are about 50 lakh and
35 lakh respectively.
No comments:
Post a Comment