7th Pay Commission: Confirmed, here is what BJP will do if it returns to power
New Delhi, May 22: It is a big day tomorrow and those expecting good news on the 7th Pay Commission will have a lot to look out for.
A lot would depend on which party would form the government at the centre and that would determine on how the next dispensation handles the issue relating to a pay hike among other issues concerning the Central Government employees.
The exit polls have predicted a clean sweep for the BJP and if one looks at the mood within the party and that of the opposition, it indicated that the exit pollsters may be proved right after all.
The
Central
Government
employees
have
clearly
been
let
down
by
the
government
and
their
desperate
wish
for
an
increase
in
the
basic
minimum
salary
has
not
been
addressed.
A
top
source
in
the
party
informed
OneIndia
that
if
the
BJP
returns
to
power,
it
would
go
ahead
with
the
Aykroyd
formula.
The
source
also
said
that
this
would
solve
the
issue
to
a
large
extent
and
the
repeated
demands
would
not
be
there.
The formula would also provide the much needed balm for the CG employees have been looking for and they would not have to wait endlessly for pay panels to be set up.
7th Pay Commission: Let down in 2003 and 2014, how talks on salary hike broke down
The government has often spoken about the Aykroyd formula. If this is implemented it would come as a big relief for the CG employees. It was made clear by Justice A K Mathur that the government must review the salaries every looking into the data available based on price index.
The commission had recommended that the pay matrix may be reviewed periodically without waiting for the long period of ten years. Salaries of central government employees can be reviewed on the basis of the Aykroyd formula which takes into consideration the changes prices of the commodities that constitute a common man's basket.
The Labour Bureau at Shimla reviews these changing prices of commodities periodically. If this process is put in place as indicate to us by our source, then it is clear that the 7th Pay Commission would be the last.