Sixth pay commission 2008: States slowly coming forward to implement Sixth Pay Commission

By Khabrein.Info Correspondent,

New Delhi, Aug 23, 2008: States are slowly coming forward to implement Sixth Pay Commission recommendations. The question of how they will implement the recommendations given the not so rosy picture of state finances, is left to the leaders of the states, or may be the leaders who will come to power after 2-3 years in those states.

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.

Uttrakhand has made the announced to implement the sixth pay commission recommendations. It is not alone. Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Puducherry have mad announcements to implement the recommendations.

Uttarakhand chif minister BC Khanduri has set up a committee headed by an IAS officer to look into hows and whys of implementation of the report in the state.

In Uttrakhand there are 1.6 lakh employees working in the state government even as a total of 65,000 jobs are lying vacant. The state employees are hoping that they would get a hike of 25 percent.

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.

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”.


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