All About 7th Central Pay Commission
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- Head of 7th Central Pay Commission – Justice AK Mathur
- 7th Central Pay Commission (CPC) submitted its report to Union Finance Ministry in New Delhi
- Objective of CPC – to revise remuneration of employees and pensioners of central government including Defence and Railways
- CPC is constituted by the Union Government after almost every 10 years in order to revise the pay scales of employees
- 6th CPC was headed by B.N.Srikrishna and was approved in July 2006
- The recommended pay revision will come into effect from 1st January 2016
- Finance Ministry to set up a committee headed by Expenditure Secretary to go through the report for its implementation
- About 47 lakh serving employee and 52 lakh pensioners of the Central Government will be impacted by this pay revision
- Implementation of 7th CPC will impact fiscal deficit by 0.65%
- It will cost the public Tax department over Rs. 1 lakh annually.
Recommendations of the 7th CPC to the Union Government
- 23.55% hike in pay and allowances of government employees
- The pay to increase by 16%
- Allowances to increase by 63%
- Pension to increase by 24%
- To set minimum basic pay as Rs. 18,000 and maximum as Rs. 2.5 lakh per month
- Abolition of grade pay and pay band structure
- To set rate of annual increment for employees at 3%
- Abolition of 52 allowances
- Introduction of a Health Insurance Scheme
- One Rank One Pension (OROP) scheme for central government staffers, para military as well as armed forces personnel
- Increase in military service pay and revised pension formula for civil employees including Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) and Defense Personnel retiring before 1 January 2016.
