Thursday, May 8, 2014
GDS COURT CASE
Case
came up for hearing on 7th May in the Delhi High Court. Advocate for
Government of India, Department of Posts requested for extension of time
for filing reply statement. Court granted four weeks time to file reply
statement. Other full details will be exhibited in the website within
two days.
M. Krishnan
Secretary General
NFPE
Wednesday, May 7, 2014
7 th and previous Central Pay Commissions
Seventh Central Pay Commission
In
a resolution dated 28th February, 2014, Government of India has
appointed the Seventh Central Pay Commission comprising Justice Shri
Ashok Kumar Mathur as Chairman, Shri Vivek Rae as full time Member, Dr.
Ratin Roy as part time Member and Smt. Meena Agarwal as Secretary. The
Commission is headquartered in Delhi and has been given 18 months from
date of its constitution to make its recommendations. To this end the
Commission will set up its team of Officers, Advisers, Institutional
Consultants and Experts and call for required information and documents
from Ministries and Departments of Government of India and various
Service associations.
The dates of appointment and submission of recommendations of the previous six central pay commissions are as under-
Central Pay Commissions
|
Date of Appointment
|
Date of Submission of Report
|
First Pay Commission
|
May, 1946
|
May, 1947
|
Second Pay Commission
|
August, 1957
|
August, 1959
|
Third Pay Commission
|
April, 1970
|
March, 1973
|
Fourth Pay Commission
|
June, 1983
|
Three Reports submitted in June, 1986;
December, 1986 and May, 1987 respectively |
Fifth Pay Commission
|
April, 1994
|
January, 1997
|
Sixth Pay Commission
|
October, 2006
|
March, 2008
|
MEDIA NEWS
Delhi HC refuses to stay functioning of Seventh Pay Commission
New
Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Tuesday declined to stay the functioning
of the Seventh Pay Commission while hearing a plea that challenged a
notification on inclusion of a former IAS officer as a member of the
panel.
Justice
Sudershan Kumar Misra also issued notice to the central government on
the plea filed by retired members of the all India Services, central
civil services and armed forces against the government's February 28
notification constituting the commission.
The
petitioners argued that inclusion of a former Indian Administrative
Service officer, Vivek Rae, in the four-member commission give rise to a
"real likelihood of bias" on his part to give a favourable
recommendation to the IAS.
The
petition said: "The impugned resolution, by retaining the practice of
including a member of the IAS as a member of the commission has given
rise to a real likelihood of bias on the part of such member in favour
of maintaining the status quo, under which the IAS enjoys a position of
special privilege in respect of pay fixation."
Rae
has a directed pecuniary interest in the recommendations of the
commission, as it would also determine his pension and retirement
benefits, alleged the plea.
The
petitioners further questioned the practice of previous pay commissions
providing an "edge" in pay scales to members of the IAS over other
members of the AIS and other central civil services including India
Forest Services (IFS), Indian Police Service (IPS), Indian Revenue
Service (IRS), and all other group A central services.
"Past
report of the commission rise to a reasonable apprehension that the
reason for the repeated rejection of the demands for parity of other
services in the AIS with the IAS is attributable to the fact that the
commission has always comprised of a member of the IAS," the petition
submitted.
Central
government counsel, however, argued the commission was not a "one-man
show" and that it recommendations inturn have to go through scrutiny of
the government and Rae was included in the commission because of his
wide experience in the field.
Former
Supreme Court judge Justice Ashok Kumar Mathur is the chairman of the
commission and former petroleum and natural gas secretary Rae, National
Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP) Rathin Roy, OSD in
finance ministry's expenditure department Meena Agarwal are the members.
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