Saturday, September 13, 2008

NMC appeals Gov to implement 6th pay commission in J&K

NMC appeals Gov to implement 6th pay commission in J&K

Jammu, Sept 13: A prominent employees' association has asked Jammu and Kashmir Governor N N Vohra to implement recommendations of the Sixth Pay Commission in the state so as to mitigate the problems of employees and pensioners.

"We hope that the Governor will take steps in implementing recommendations of the commission at the earliest to meet the genuine demands of state government employees and pensioners," President of National Mazdoor Conference (NMC), Subash Shastri, said while addressing a meeting of NMC workers here yesterday.

Shastri also expressed solidarity with daily wage earners working in various government departments and sought regularisation of their jobs besides enhancement of wage rate from Rs 70 to Rs 150.

Meanwhile, Jammu and Kashmir Awami Congress (JKAC) has also asked the state government to implement the Sixth Pay Commission recommendations to mitigate the suffering of the state government employees.

JKAC projected this demand through a memorandum submitted to the Divisional Commissioner here, according to the President of the party, Sat Pal Sharma.

Bureau Report

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Judges set for a hefty pay hikes following Sixth Pay Commission

Judges set for a hefty pay hikes following Sixth Pay Commission

Khabrein.info Correspondent,

New Delhi, Sept 13, 2008: Judges are set for a hefty pay hikes if all goes well. Sixth Pay Commission seems to have opened the floodgates of pay rise in every sector. Thy are set to get pay hikes in proximity of around 300 percent.

It was only two days ago when the union government had decided to raise the salaries of President, Vice President and governor by around three hundred percent.

Presdient Patil who used to get Rs 50000 as monthly salary will take away a monthly salary of Rs 150000.

Central government employees’ much touted pay hike will pale in the eyes of the pay increment given to president, vice president and governors.

Now judges across the board will also get hefty pay rise if Parliament approves the recommendations of the three member committee of Supreme Court of India that was constituted by the Chief Justice of India.

If the recommendations of the committee are approved and set to look to be approved, Chef Justice of India’s monthly salary with go up from Rs 33,000 to Rs 1.10 lakh while that of other Supreme Court judges-judges and CJs of High Courts will increase to Rs 1 lakh from the present 30,000. Sitting judges of the HCs will get Rs 90,000 as against the present Rs 26,000.

The Committee in its report reasons the hefty pay rise saying, “In deciding the salaries of judges we should take into account not only the cost of living but also the earnings by members of the Bar, so as to appoint competent judges with impeccable integrity...Judges in our country are highly underpaid as compared not only to compensation paid to judges in other countries but also to the income of a averagely-successful lawyer”.

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Sixth Pay Panel Report To Be Implemented By Rajasthan Govt

Sixth Pay Panel Report To Be Implemented By Rajasthan Govt

Sat, 09/13/2008

On Thursday, the Rajasthan cabinet took the decision to implement the Sixth Pay Commission recommendations from this month, which will definitely prove to be a bonanza for the employees and pensioners of the state government.

It was revealed by the Parliamentary Affairs Minister Rajendra Rathore that over seven lakh government employees and nearly three lakh pensioners would benefit from this decision.

After he had attended the Cabinet meeting the minister said, “The report would be implemented with retrospective effect and would entail an additional burden of Rs 4920 crore annually on the state exchequer.”

He also informed that Rajasthan is the first state, which has implemented the report of pay panel within just two weeks of its receipt.

Source: http://www.topnews.in

Jharkhand govt. to implement 6t Pay Commission in the state

Jharkhand govt. to implement 6t Pay Commission in the state

By Khabrein.Info News Desk,

Ranchi, Sept 13, 2008: There is good news for state government employees in Jharkhand as state government has decided to implement 6t Pay commission in the state.

The decision by cabinet in Jharkhand comes on the heel of several other states deciding to implement the 6th Pay Commission recommendations in those states.


The union government last month had decided to accept the 6th pay Panel recommendations.

It also issued notification on 30th August last month regarding the implementation of the pay panel recommendations.

But unlike central government Jharkhand government will not implement the 6th pay panel report from 1st January 2006. The Jharkhand government will implement the pay panel recommendations from April last year.

P.K. Jajoria, secretary of the cabinet coordination committee of the state said, “The state government will implement the recommendations of the Pay Commission from April 2007”.

He went on to add, “By implementing the recommendations, the state will bear additional financial burden of Rs.17.70 billion per annum. The state will also bear burden of Rs.19.58 billion to pay arrears to the employees.”

Unlike the union government, Jharkhand government will pay 60 percent of arrears in the current financial year and remaining 40 percent in 2009-2010.

Uttar Pradesh chief minister has also announced to implement the sixth pay commission recommendations. She has also formed a committee to look into the issue of implementation of the report.

Despite announcement it is really going to take several months if not years (though it cannot be ruled out) before the states are able to sort out the tricky issues involved in the implementations of the report. There are intricate issues involved like the pay structures, the pay bands, benefits involved and the most important issue of them all, from where the state governments are going to raise the finances.

While making the announcement the chief minister Mayawati grandly announced, “I decided to implement these recommendations in the larger interest of the well being of the government employees who are facing an acute crunch on account of the rising prices of essential commodities for which the central government was squarely responsible”.

The chief minister said, “The new pay commission would be brought into force with effect from Dec 1 , though we would implement it with retrospect from Jan 2006”.

There are around 1.5 million employees working for the state government and it would entail an additional expenditure of around Rs 20000 crore. “But we will make it a point to meet that by enhancing our pending recoveries and by plugging wastages. Rest assured, we will not levy any fresh taxes on the people of the state”, Mayawati said.

No previous pay commission has evoked such a great hope and anticipation from government employees like the sixth pay commission.

But there are serious questions when it comes to implement the sixth pay commission recommendations. Several states including Uttar Pradesh and Bihar besides several other states have not yet fully implemented the fifth pay commission report.

In Uttar Pradesh there are over 24 corporations where fifth pay commission is still to be implemented. A report said that there are some state government organizations where employees are still getting salaries as per third pay commission recommendations. At present the employees Jal Nigam, UP State Road Transport Corporation, Housing Board, Forest Corporation, Rajkiya Nirman Nigam, StateWarehousing Corporation, Pollution Control Board and UP State Bridge Corporation are the only ones getting salaries as per the recommendations of the fifth pay commission. However, none these got the revised pay scales in 1996, the year when the recommendations of the fifth pay commission were accepted and implemented.

Maharashtra has so far not announced to implement the sixth pay commission recommendations, but the mainstay of India’s economy, Maharashtra is sure to implement the recommendations of the sixth pay commission.

he Sixth Pay Commission recommendations are likely to increase the state's salaries and pension bill by around Rs 4,500 crore (Rs 45 billion) annually. Although the state government has provided for nearly Rs 10,000 crore (Rs 100 billion) in the state's budget for absorbing the impact of the recommendations, it will have to cut down on its development expenditure at least in the coming financial year, if it decides to implement the commission's recommendations from January 1, 2006.

In the meantime Delhi High Court has ruled that a government employee who was suspended would be entitled to the enhanced pay scales recommended by a new pay commission.

Dismissing the central government’s contention that a suspended employee would not be entitled to the recommendations of a new pay commission, a bench comprising Justices Madan B. Lokur and J.R. Midha said such an officer was entitled to enhanced subsistence allowance.

Source: http://www.khabrein.info/

Sixth Pay Commission: SMS Hospital docs to go on strike from today

Sixth Pay Commission: SMS Hospital docs to go on strike from today

13 Sep 2008, 0518 hrs IST,TNN

JAIPUR: The resident doctors of SMS Hospital will go on a strike from Saturday. They are agitated by the state government's move for not including them in the recommendations of the Sixth Pay Commission.

Dr Akhilesh Mishra, secretary, Jaipur Association of Resident Doctors, said here on Friday. "The state government has neglected the doctors by not giving them their due," he added.

The resident doctors have demanded that all the doctors be included in the single pay scale under band three of Sixth Pay Commission. There arrears should be paid in cash, they demanded.

"The result of this demand would be that resident doctors will get an equal stipend. Further, this will reduce the inequality among stipends given to doctors," added Mishra. The emergency services, medicine, gynaecology and Neuro Surgery, will be worst effected by the strike.


Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/

Sixth Pay Commission: The people seek to join the tyrants

Sixth Pay Commission: The people seek to join the tyrants

Bharat Jhunjhunwala
11 Sep 2008 02:08:00 AM IST

THE economy is slowing down. The growth rate this year is expected to be around seven per cent, down steeply from 11 per cent. The burden of the Sixth Pay Commission will not help. Salaries were increased mainly because the government had the capacity to pay. Justice Sri Krishna, chairman of the Pay Commission, was very much pleased that the government had not only accepted his recommendations but also improved on them. He is reported to have said: “We had worked on the numbers that the Ministry of Finance had given us. My job was to give the award within those parameters and we did that. The government has improved upon the numbers.” This makes it clear that the sole criterion for recommending the increase in salary was the paying capacity of the government.Welfare of the people is no longer the objective of the government.


The government imposes taxes on the people to provide increased salaries to its employees.

It is also difficult to determine the ‘capacity’ of the government to bear the burden of such payments. The government can generate as much capacity as it wants. The government has the right to print currency notes. The government was not in a position to bear the burden of the Fifth Pay Commission. Yet the increase was made. Some revenue was ‘created’ by increasing the fiscal deficit; the rest was deducted from productive investments like building of roads.

The salaries of government employees should, in my opinion, be determined in proportion to the income of the people.

Data provided by the World Bank indicates that the salaries of government employees are about one to two times the average income of the people in most countries. India is an exception.

According to the Economic Survey published by the Ministry of Finance, the average income of public sector employees was Rs 3,25,774 in 2007. The income of the common man is much less.

I reckon the daily wage of the common man to be Rs 100. This amounts to Rs 30,000 per annum. The income of government employees, therefore, is about 10 times that of the common man. This is just the ‘official’ income.

Professor R Vaidyanathan of the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, has assessed that government employees earn about four times their salaries through corruption.

The real income of government employees, therefore, is about 40 times that of the common man. The Sixth Pay Commission increases this further! Government employees argue that the incomes of people like Ratan Tata and Narayana Murthy are not taken into account while determining their salaries. Salaries of MLAs and MPs too are beyond the review of the Pay Commission.

The politicians are free to determine their own salaries. This argument is flawed.

Ratan Tata and other industrialists invest their own money and take a great risk. Many lose all their wealth and go bankrupt. Government employees face no such risk. For example, the engineers who constructed the embankments on the river Kosi will not have to pay compensation for the breaches which have led to a huge loss of life and money. They will continue to draw their salaries and also get the benefits of the Sixth Pay Commission.

Politicians have to face the public every five years. Rajiv Gandhi and Sukh Ram did not pass this test. They were removed from their positions by the unsatisfied voters. Government employees face no such test. Another argument is that welfare schemes are implemented by government employees. They cannot be expected to deliver in the absence of adequate compensation.

But it is seen that welfare schemes have become merely another Kamadhenu for government employees. This author had the occasion to visit Gorakhpur as a consultant to an international NGO in the aftermath of the floods of 1998. Several people disclosed that they had to shell out Rs 200 to the revenue officials in order to get their relief of Rs 1,000. It is seen that the ‘cut’ taken by government employees has only increased after the implementation of the Fifth Pay Commission.

More salary seems to increase their demand for a parallel increase in unofficial income. A car or a fleet of taxis owned by the patwari is not an unusual event.

The Sixth Pay Commission should have made a strong recommendation for increasing the accountability of the government employees instead of just recommending an increase in their salaries.

For example, the performance of every employee should be assessed by a confidential survey.

A questionnaire can be sent to the consumers to assess the performance of the electricity board lineman and engineer.

An independent authority like the Vigilance Commission can be set up to provide confidential reports on all government employees. Manmohan Singh had put ‘reinventing’ governance at the top of his agenda when he took charge as the Prime Minister.

The unfortunate reality is that politicians are in a trap. Chief ministers like Jayalalithaa and Ashok Gehlot took the difficult route of breaking strikes by government servants. They were removed in the elections.

Anecdotal evidence suggests that government employees managing the poll booths had a major role to play in this.

In the result, even an ‘anti-bureaucracy’ crusader like Mayawati is forced to promptly announce the implementation of the Sixth Pay Commission awards. I do not know where the solution lies.

Government employees have become an uncontrollable demon . The public also are unwilling to confront them.

They want to get a ‘government job.’ Instead of opposing the tyranny of government employees, the people seek to join the army of tyrants just as kings rallied around Ravana and Kamsa. One wonders whether it will be necessary for a Rama or Krishna to take birth to deliver the people from this tyranny.

bharatj@sancharnet.in


Source: http://www.expressbuzz.com/

Sixth Pay Commission: Jharkhand govt to implement 6th Central Pay Commission

Sixth Pay Commission: Jharkhand govt to implement 6th Central Pay Commission

Ranchi, Sept 12: Jharkhand government on Friday decided to implement the Sixth Central Pay Commission recommendations for its state government employees and set up a committee to work out details.

A cabinet meeting, chaired by Chief Minister Shibu Soren, appointed former accountant general S K Kujur as chairman of the committee, the official sources said.

Once the report is submitted by the committee, the employees would get 60 per cent of the arrears this fiscal.

In another significant decision, students from some tribes would get direct class three government job after completing graduation while those who earn technical diploma would get direct class two jobs, the sources said.

Bureau Report

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