7th Pay Commission: All hopes dashed, end game for CG employees
New Delhi, Mar 08: The last Cabinet meeting before the elections was held on Thursday and there was some very bad news for the Central Government employees where the 7th Pay Commission was concerned.
There would be no further announcement on the hike in basic minimum pay as there would be no other forum available for the government to announce the good news that the CG employees have been waiting for.
With the last Cabinet meeting being held, the Election Commission of India would not announce the poll dates, following which the model code of conduct would come into place.
CG
employees
would
now
have
to
be
content
with
the
recent
announcements
which
were
related
to
an
increase
in
Dearness
Allowance
(DA)
and
Dearness
Relief
(DR).
Similar
announcements
were
made
by
the
governments
of
Jammu
and
Kashmir,
Odisha,
Uttarakhand
and
Rajasthan.
7th Pay Commission: Why CG employees would pin hopes on this last Cabinet meeting
The CG employees would clearly be upset that the government has not taken into consideration their long standing demand. Although there have been some sops that have been doled up, it has not been sufficient. Many say that instead of rolling out these sops, the government could have gone in directly for a hike in the basic minimum pay.
All through officials had made CG employees believe that there would be some positive news on this issue. However now it has turned out that these were just assurances to ensure that the CG employees did not agitate or go on strike.
The basic demand that the CG employees had been making was to hike the basic minimum pay to Rs 26,000. The government had indicated that it would be hiked to Rs 21,000, but it now appears that this action too had not been taken. The 7th Pay Commission it may be recalled had recommended a pay hike of Rs 18,000.