Sixth Pay Commission (SPC): Pay panel has Army, police fuming

Sixth Pay Commission (SPC): Pay panel has Army, police fuming

Josy Joseph
Wednesday, September 03, 2008 04:11 IST

NEW DELHI: Government officers, right from the police to the military, have been angered over a systematic effort by the IAS lobby to ensure their monopoly in the government using the Sixth Pay Commission (SPC) and other executive means. The SPC has fueled such anger and frustration among the military, IPS and Indian Revenue Service personnel that their email chains and informal gatherings are buzzing with anger against the IAS like never before.

Many IPS and IRS senior officials allege that the new pay scales notified by the government last week may have been tampered with by the IAS lobby even after the cabinet approval. Some IPS sources say that they are planning to take up the “tampering” issue that will grant the middle rung IAS and Indian Foreign Service officers’ better increments, which was not envisaged by the cabinet meeting.

“Some of us are discussing taking up the issue with the government,” says a senior IPS officer, about the possible tampering done to the cabinet decision.

Senior officers across the IPS, IRS and military say that the over the last two pay commissions, fifth and sixth, the IAS lobby has managed to establishment their “monopoly” in the government. In both the pay commissions, the member secretaries of the commissions were from the IAS.

“The commissions before that have tried to bring down the differences between various class I services, but in the fifth and sixth pay commissions, the IAS lobby has managed to further widen the gap and destroy the gains of the former pay panels,” says a senior official.


Source: http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?newsid=1187484