Professors, lecturers get hefty pay hike after 6th Pay Commission

Professors and lecturers are all set to get hefty pay hike. Following the 6th Pay Commission implementation there was some disappointment among university and colleges teachers over the delay in implementation of the pay panel recommendation, but finally they too are set for substantial salary hikes.

If everything goes well university teachers will get approximately 30 percent pay hikes on the lines of the Sixth Pay Panel recommendations. 

University grants commission had set up a committee under a former vice chancellor of prestigious JNU to recommend the pay revision needed in teaching fraternity in the universities. 

The GK Chadha committee was under fire recently for not being able to submit its report on time, the same day when Sixth Pay Commission presented its report. 

But Chadha committee has some good news for teachers besides pay raise. It has reportedly favoured raising of retirement age to 65, flexibility to accommodate talent through incentives, grant for working in remote and inaccessible areas and also emphasis on research.

Chadha while making the announcement said, “We will ask all states to invoke a uniform policy on the age of retirement and re-employment of teachers. The uniformity is essential to rid India’s higher education sector of inter-regional disparities”.

Chadha went on to add, “We will focus at the entry level, on those just completing their academics and contemplating a life of teaching. We want to lure them into the profession.”

He added, “We cannot offer the red-carpet treatment that the corporate sector can, but we plan to offer them better research facilities to keep them (faculty) in our universities.”

Jammu and Kashmir to implement Pay Commission soon. Govt also thinking enhancement of retirement age.

Jammu and Kashmir government is likely to implement the recommendations of sixth pay commission with regard to the government employees besides enhancing the retirement age from 58 to 60 years well before the state goes for assembly polls by the end of this year. 

Well informed sources said that a high level committee constituted by the government to look into the recommendations of the sixth pay commission and its financial impact over the state has almost completed the report and was waiting for the Governor NN Vohra’s green signal for presenting the report before the advisors. 

The Committee, sources said, is headed by financial commissioner BL Bhat and comprises of Basharat Bhat, commissioner secretary General Administrative Department (GAD) and BB Vayas, financial commissioner Home as its members.

Sources told News Agency of Kashmir that governor NN Vohra has recently asked his advisors to gear up the process so that the recommendations of sixth pay commission can be implemented well before the assembly elections. 

“If all goes as it seems the state government employees will be getting the enhanced salary as per the new recommendations implemented by the central government before December”, sources, preferring anonymity, said. 

They said that another important announcement for the state government employees was in pipeline and final decision was to be taken in next couple of days. “The government has almost decided to enhance the retirement age of the government employees to 60 years from 58”, sources said. 

The proposal mooted and formulated during the Congress-PDP government was termed as “last wish” of this government by the then chief minister Ghulam Nabi Azad, who was planning to rope in the government employees by enhancing their retirement age. 

Sources said that Azad was very keen to implement the decision and all the ground work in this regard was also completed in his tenure. However, his government fall well before the decision could have been implemented. “He was planning to announce the decision well before the elections”, sources in the civil secretariat said. 

If the sources have to be believed, Governor NN Vohra has also expressed his willingness to go ahead with the decision. “A session of advisors to governor is likely to be held in next few days to take a final decision in this regard”, sources said. 

Source : News Agency of Kashmir.

Jharkhand to implement sixth pay panel recommendations

The Jharkhand cabinet on Friday gave its approval to implement the recommendations of the Sixth Pay Commission in the state.  "The state government will implement the recommendations of the Pay Commission from April 2007," said P.K. Jajoria, secretary of the cabinet coordination committee of the state.  "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."  The state government will pay 60 percent of arrears in the current financial year and rest will be paid in 2009-2010.  To pay arrears this year, the state will have to bear an additional financial burden of Rs.10.62 billion. Source : The Economic Times.

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Rajasthan Govt to implement pay panel's report

In a bonanza for state government employees and pensioners, the Rajasthan Cabinet on Thursday decided to implement the report of the Sixth Pay Commission from this month.

The decision would benefit over seven lakh government employees and nearly three lakh pensioners, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Rajendra Rathore told reporters here.

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

Rajasthan is the first state to implement the report of the pay panel within two weeks of its receipt, Rathore said.+

Source The Hindu

Sixth Pay Commission: MP government in a bind Pay panel recommendations on hikes in salaries and perks never fail in enlisting the support of employees' trade unions. So, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan implemented the tried and tested formula last Sunday by announcing a pay hike for the state government employees and officials. However, in the haste to beat the Election Commission's model code of conduct for the coming Assembly elections, that is expected any time soon, Chauhan's own plan nearly boomeranged on him. His tenure in the government would easily go down in history as the most employee-friendly over the last two decades. He has opened recruitments that were frozen for almost a decade, most popular of them are for the posts like teachers. He has not only hiked their salaries but also eased up rules for appointment to the next of kin of a deceased employee on compassionate grounds. However, the canny employees' unions know that the election-time is best suited for bargaining. Since working out the details of new wages of 4.8 lakh workforce will take time, the State Cabinet decided on Tuesday to immediately pay 20 per cent more salary as interim relief to employees. Dissatisfied with the arrangement, many employees unions went on a flash strike in the State capital Bhopal on Wednesday. Till late Wednesday night, Water Resources Minister Anup Mishra, who is considered to be close to Chauhan, was busy in discussions with union leaders convincing them that the Government's intentions were aboveboard. According to the notification issued on Wednesday, the Government has decided to accept the Sixth Pay Commission recommendations and implement them retroactively from January 1, 2006. However, a formula is yet to be worked out on how to pay the huge arrears which occur from previous dues. The annual burden on states' exchequer from the new wage scheme is likely to be Rs 2,500 crore. The arrears amount could go up to Rs 4,000 crore. This total raises a challenge to government as it would have to struggle hard to arrange such a big amount, even if staggered monthly payments of arrears are made. Former Chief Minister Digvijay Singh used to moan about the burden created by pay commission hikes. Now, Chauhan's chartered accountant finance Minister, Raghavji Bhai might want to do the same, especially as nobody has ever uttered a word about cutting bureaucratic flab by 33 per cent as recommended by the fifth pay panel. The reason is simple: election year or not, that would be political suicide. Source : India Today

Interim Relief for MP Govt employees but they went on strike.

As many as 450,000 employees of the MP government today went on strike in protest against the state cabinet decision to approve interim relief instead of implementing sixth pay commission recommendations, as have been promised by Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan.

Though Madhya Pradesh is the first state to revise pay scales in accordance with the pay commission recommendations, it has asked for “rationalisation” from the pay commission.

The state cabinet yesterday approved 20 per cent interim relief to employees by merging their basic pay and grade pay.

“We want to rationalise pay recommendations since there are differences in central and government grades for similar posts. The number of central government employees in various grades under similar pay-scale is low than those in state government,” Raghavji, State finance minister, told Business Standard, adding, “We have approved interim relief to pay some cash relief to our employees with immediate effect, in view of the coming festive season. We have demanded rationalisation in lower and higher grade pay-scales from the pay commission and hope that a final decision will come soon. We also hope that employees will withdraw their strike.”

The central government recommended pay scale is Greek to many employees. For example a sub-inspected in police department and inspector will get the same salary after implementation of recommendation of the sixth pay commission.

Similarly an upper division clerk and section officer in a department will draw the same salary if state government implements the recommendations. “This will make the promotion procedure in various departments typical and will disturb the discipline among employees,” Raghavji said.

The state has approximately 1.5 lakh employees under Rs 5,500-8,800. After revision, this scale will be converted to Rs 9,300-34,800 and bring many a senior employees like tehsildar, inspectors and sections officers at par with their subordinates.

“How will we motivate employees if they do not have promotion chances,” Raghavji said.

Further higher grade employees, more than one lakh in number, are under Rs 1,200-16,500 scale. These employees have been recommended only 20 per cent hike while higher rank officials (additional directors and directors of various departments under Rs 14,300-18,300 and Rs 16,400-20,000 have been recommended a hike of 50-60 per cent.

“We have demanded to rationalise the lower pay scale for high rank officials,” the minister said further.

The State government has also demanded 50 per cent contribution from the pay commission. At present the state has to shell out Rs 2,500 crore more from state kitty to meet Rs 12,500 crore pay burdens. After a final decision the state
Source : Business Standard