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26Th July 2016
The Central government employees will get
fatter paychecks starting from August salaries, according to a gazette
notification issued by central government on the Seventh Finance Commission
report here on Tuesday.
The central government has decided to
implement the seventh pay panel recommendations on salary and pension hike for
its employees with effect from January 1, 2016, according to the gazette. The Total Investment & Insurance Solutions
The pay panel outlay is pegged at Rs 1.02
lakh crore (or over $15 billion) from the government treasury during the
current fiscal year.
The 16 per cent pay hike and 24 per cent
increase in pension, with arrears from January this year, will affect 47 lakh
serving central government employees and 53 lakh pensioners. The Total Investment & Insurance Solutions
With regards to the allowances, Union Finance
Minister Arun Jaitley late last month said till a final decision was taken by a
panel headed by the Finance Secretary, all existing perks will be paid at the
"existing rates".
The notification said as regards to the
annual increment, instead of the earlier July 1, now there will be two dates of
January 1 and July 1.
In a year the employee will be entitled for
increment at one of these dates depending on his date of appointment, etc.
The minimum monthly salary of a central
government employee has been fixed at Rs 18,000 from earlier Rs 7,000. The Total Investment & Insurance Solutions
The maximum will now be Rs 2.5 lakh for the
Cabinet Secretary, which is more than double the current pay of Rs 90,000 a
month for the country's top bureaucrat.
For other officers in the top scale --
secretary or equivalent -- the monthly salary will now be around Rs 2,25,000.The Total Investment & Insurance Solutions
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