New
Delhi, February 2: A day after Budget 2017 was tabled in the Parliament by
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, the Central Government employees were upset as
the Union Minister nowhere mentioned any increase in the hike of allowances in
the 7th Pay Commission. But the members of National Joint Action Committee
(NJCA) are an optimist about the implementation of 7CPC and believe that the
government will come up with some positive news on April 1. The NJCA also
believe that the Union Government will be implementing the 7CPC latest by April
1, after the end of financial year.
On
Wednesday, the central government employees were gripped with pessimism after
Arun Jaitley made no reference to the anomalies related to 7CPC in his Budget
speech. “All of us were eagerly waiting for Finance Minister to make some
announcement on minimum wages. But after Mr Jaitley’s speech ended without
mentioning a single word about the increase in the minimum wage, most of us
were upset,” Shiv Gopal Mishra, NJCA chief said to India.com.
He
further added, “The government may implement the 7CPC by April 1 and their
demand to increase the minimum wage will also be implemented. If the government
fails to increase minimum wages from Rs 18,000 to Rs 25,000 then we will launch
a massive protest against the government”.
The
NJCA has been actively involved with the Centre where they are seeking a
revision of minimum salary from Rs 18,000 to Rs 26,000. The NJCA members and
its conveyor had also met Home Minister Rajnath Singh, Finance Minister Arun
Jaitley, Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu, a day after the implementation of 7CPC
and had kept their demands in front of senior leaders.
Shiv
Gopal Mishra is quite optimist about the hike in allowances of government
employees but he is not sure that their demands of raising the minimum wage
would be fulfilled by the government.
On
Wednesday, most of the senior central government employees were eagerly waiting
for the Budget speech as most of them expected the Finance Minister to speak on
the 7CPC.
On
July 1, 2016, the 7th Pay Commission was approved by the Union Cabinet. The
date of implementation was fixed by the high-powered committee as for January
1, 2016. From the month of July, the central government employees were provided
with the hiked salaries, along with the arrears of six months. But the hike was
only related to the basic component of their pay. The increase in allowances
was upheld, due to the anomalies raised by employees unions.
The
implementation of 7th Pay Commission will directly benefit around 47 lakh
central government employees, along with 53 lakh pensioners. In the 7th Pay
Commission, the minimum wage has been revised from Rs 7,000 to Rs 18,000. While
the maximum salary has been capped at Rs 2.5 lakh.
Source
: http://www.india.com
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