Saturday, March 12, 2016

7th Pay Commission Latest News – RTI Reply reveals Pay Parity denial for Defence Personnel at par with IAS

Empowered Committee formed by Government is in the process of examining of 7th Commission Recommendations. After this negative reply by MOD, Defence Personnel might approach the committee to look in to the matter of pay parity

7th Pay Commission Latest News – RTI reply reveals Pay Parity denial for Defence Personnel at par with IAS, IPS and other Group A Civil Services in Central Government

At a time when Central government employees are waiting for the implementation of Seventh pay commission, a new revelation has come to light. According to reports, there is deep distrust between government and armed forces over the pay parity issue.

It is being said that three services had expressed dissatisfaction over some of the recommendations of the Pay commission and had requested Commission to make required changes. Later pay commission approached Defence Ministry with their demands.

Now under RTI query, it has been revealed that the Defence Ministry negated army officers pay parity with civilian counterparts in IAS, IPS and other allied services.

An Army officer was quoted by ET as saying, “We thought it was the pay commission that was selling us short, but this RTI actually revealed it was the Defence Ministry officials”. Ministry also gave reasons why their demands were not approved. “The basis of this demand i.e. merger of rank pay in basic pay was examined in a detailed matter by the Pranab Mukherjee committee report and the same was not accepted hence the case is not supported”, officer further said.

Ministry also not accepted Army men’s argument that civilian bureaucrat mustn’t be paid equal sum of amount in comparison to their defence counterparts. Defence Ministry said that both are different thing as their service conditions and the nature of job is quite different.

What are the grievances of armed forces? Army Officers say that if the Pay Commission is implemented in the present form, it will position them much below their civilian counterparts in terms of salaries, facilities and status.

One of the main grudge that the armed forces have is with regard to risk-hardship matrix. The officers say that a soldier posted in Siachen Glacier, which has the highest degree of both risk and hardship, gets an allowance of Rs 31,500 per month.

In contrast, a civilian bureaucrat from the All India Services draws 30 per cent of his salary as “hardship allowance” when posted anywhere outside the comfort zone.

Under the new scale, a senior IAS official posted in a city in northeast will draw much more as “hardship allowance”, compared to the Rs 31,500 per month drawn by military officers in Siachen.

Source: One India

1 comments:

Defence Ministry contention that the duties and role of both civilians and military personnel are different thing as their service conditions and the nature of job is quite different. That warrants not mere parity but enhanced pay and perks to the military personnel.

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