Sikkim to follow Sixth Pay Commission recommendations

Khabrein.Info News Desk,

New Delhi, Aug 26, 2008: Sikkim government seems to have made its mind to implement Sixth Pay Commission recommendations in the state. Sikkim is fifth state to have announced its intention to implement the pay commission recommendation.

Earlier Uttar Pradesh chief minister Kumari Mayawati, Tamil Nadu chief minister M Karunanidhi, Uttrakhand chief minister BC Khanduri and Haryana chief minister Bhoopinder Singh Hooda have vowed to implement the recommendations of the sixth pay panel.

All the four states have formed committees to decide as to how to go about implementing the sixth pay panel recommendations in their respective states.

The decisions of the state government have given hope to hundreds of thousands of employees in these states that they too would get the benefit of the pay commission that was being awaited like no other pay commission in India. It is notwithstanding the fact that there are several questions that are yet to be answered. These include the availability of finances to implement the recommendations. Besides in several states including Uttar Pradesh fifth pay commission recommendations were still to be implemented fully.

Sikkim’s Fourth Pay Commission, constituted by the state government earlier this month, has said it would make the Sixth Central Pay Commission recommendations (CPC) as its basis for working out the instructions and directions of the state.

The panel had been entrusted with the responsibility of examining the pay-scales of all the categories of state government employees and suggest changes. It is the also first pay commission notified by any Northeastern state after the Centre announced the adoption of the Sixth Pay Commission.


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