Seventh Pay Commission’s Report To Be Implemented Ahead Of States Elections In May
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Delhi: Ahead of the states’ assembly elections in May’ 2016, the Central
government may implement the recommendations of the Seventh Pay
Commission after receiving the report of the pay panel within this year,
which will benefit 50 lakh central government employees and 56 lakh
pensioners including dependents.
“The
central government will decide execution time of the pay commission’s
proposals after the pay panel submits its report, which will be possible
pre-election “special packages” for West Bengal, Assam, Kerala and
Tamil Nadu, which are all due for polls by May 2016,” an official of the
Finance Ministry said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Just like
one rank one pension (OROP) was announced by Modi government on 5th of
this month ahead of Bihar Assembly election despite huge financial
burden to get majority seats of his party in Bihar Assembly.
OROP
announcement not only is pre-election BJP’s special package but also
Union cabinet approved six percent increase in DA for central government
employees on Wednesday, making the total to 119 percent, on a day the
Election Commission announced poll dates for Bihar is a move that would
benefit the BJP in Bihar Assembly Election.
Accordingly,
JD (U) leader K C Tyagi said, “The Modi government gave a ‘political
bribe’ to voters. I welcome the DA hike for central government
employees, but, I feel the, timing of the announcement is not correct.”
BJP needs
to win most state elections in the next four years to gain control of
the Rajya Sabha, where seats are distributed based on the strength of
parties in state assemblies.
A defeat
for Prime Minister Narendra Modi would harm his chances of consolidating
power in parliament, where his reform agenda is being blocked because
his party is in the minority in the Rajya Sabha.
So, Modi led BJP government is ready to give any sop to win states assemblies electons.
Finance
Minister Arun Jaitley said on August 30, that report of Seventh Pay
Commission for central government employees was coming shortly.
However,
Chairman of the Seventh Pay Commission, Justice Ashok Kumar Mathur told
PTI on August 25, “The Commission will submit its report by the end of
September.”
Now, it
is expected that recommendations of Seventh Pay Commission, will be
implemented before the announcement of West Bengal, Assam, Kerala and
Tamil Nadu states assemblies’ election in May 2016.
The
Seventh Pay Commission, which was set up by the UPA government, was
required to submit its report by August-end.The government constitutes
the Pay Commission almost every 10 years to revise the pay scale of its
employees and often these are adopted by states after some
modifications.
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