7th Pay Commission: Lavasa panel on allowances submits report to Jaitley

Report will be taken up by the Union Cabinet after it is examined by empowered group of secretaries

A high-level committee headed by Finance Secretary Ashok Lavasa, tasked with examining the Seventh Central Pay Commission’s (7th CPC) recommendations on allowances, submitted its report to Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday.

The report will now be examined by an empowered group of secretaries after which it will be taken up by the Union Cabinet, said a senior government official. The outlay for allowances for the 4.7 million central government employees is expected to be around Rs 29,000 crore, as forecast by the pay panel.

In June last year, after implementing the CPC proposals on salary and pension, Jaitley had announced the