7th Pay Commission visit to Hyderabad from 18th to 20th November, 2014

7th Pay Commission visit to Hyderabad from 18th to 20th November, 2014

    Commission’s visit to Hyderabad

The Commission, headed by its Chairman, Justice Shri A. K. Mathur, proposes to visit Hyderabad from 18th to 20th November, 2014. The Commission would like to invite various entities/associations/federations representing any/all categories of employees covered by the terms of reference of the Commission to present their views.

Your request for a meeting with the Commission may be sent through e-mail to the Secretary, 7th Central Pay Commission at secy-7cpc@nic.in. The memorandum already submitted by the requesting entity may also be sent as an attachment with this e-mail.

The last date for receiving request for meeting is 17th Nov. 2014 (1700 hours).

Source: http://7cpc.india.gov.in/news06.html

Delhi HC refuses to stay functioning of Seventh Pay Commission

Delhi HC refuses to stay functioning of Seventh Pay Commission: IndiaTV News

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Tuesday declined to stay the functioning of the Seventh Pay Commission while hearing a plea that challenged a notification on inclusion of a former IAS officer as a member of the panel.

Justice Sudershan Kumar Misra also issued notice to the central government on the plea filed by retired members of the all India Services, central civil services and armed forces against the government's Feb 28 notification constituting the commission.

The petitioners argued that inclusion of a former Indian Administrative Service officer, Vivek Rae, in the four-member commission give rise to a "real likelihood of bias" on his part to give a favourable recommendation to the IAS.

The petition said: "The impugned resolution, by retaining the practice of including a member of the IAS as a member of the commission has given rise to a real likelihood of bias on the part of such member in favour of maintaining the status quo, under which the IAS enjoys a position of special privilege in respect of pay fixation."


Rae has a directed pecuniary interest in the recommendations of the commission, as it would also determine his pension and retirement benefits, alleged the plea.

The petitioners further questioned the practice of previous pay commissions providing an "edge" in pay scales to members of the IAS over other members of the AIS and other central civil services including India Forest Services (IFS), Indian Police Service (IPS), Indian Revenue Service (IRS), and all other group A central services.

Source: http://www.indiatvnews.com

Inclusion of IAS officer in 7th Pay Commission challenged in Delhi HC

Inclusion of IAS officer in 7th Pay Commission challenged in Delhi HC
The Indian Express | New Delhi | May 7, 2014 2:26 am

Summary

The central goverment counsel Jatan Singh said there was no scope for bias since recommendations of the commission were a “collective decision,” of the three members.

The inclusion of a senior IAS officer in the three member 7th Pay Commission has been challenged in the Delhi High Court by a group of retired officials from various other central services, including a former defence officer

The retired officials, in their plea, challenged the notification to constitute the 7th Pay Commission alleging that there was an inherent bias in the recommendations of the commission towards IAS officers, who get a higher pay scale than their contemporaries in other services. The HC Tuesday issued a notice to the Centre on the plea and sought its response within six weeks.

According to the Finance Ministry’s notification issued in February, Vivek Rae, retired secretary-level officer in the IAS, was made a member of the panel along with a retired judge and the Director of the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, Rathin Roy.

The petitioners argued that an IAS officer could not be appointed as he would be “by necessary implication, directly interested in and affected by the recommendations of the pay commission.”

“No person who has ever been a member of any of the services, whose pay or pension is under fixation should be on the commission,” the plea said.

The central goverment counsel Jatan Singh said there was no scope for bias since recommendations of the commission were a “collective decision,” of the three members.

 

Source: http://indianexpress.com