7th Pay Commission to submit report on Nov 19

The 7th Pay Commission will submit its report to Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday recommending increase in remuneration of central government employees as well as pensioners.

“We are ready with the report and will submit it on November 19,” the Commission’s Chairman Justice A K Mathur told PTI.

The Pay Commission was set up by the UPA government in February 2014 to revise remuneration of about 4.8 million central government employees and 5.5 million pensioners.

Its recommendations will also have a bearing on the salaries of the state government staff.

The Union Cabinet had extended the term of the panel in August by four months, till December.

Government constitutes the Pay Commission almost every 10 years to revise the payscale of its employees and often these are adopted by states after some modifications.

As part of the exercise, the commission holds discussions with various stakeholders, including organisations, federations, groups representing civil employees as well as defence services.

The recommendations of the 7th Pay Commission are scheduled to take effect from January 1, 2016.

Besides chairman, other members of the Pay Commission are Vivek Rae, a retired IAS officer of 1978 batch, and Rathin Roy, an economist. Meena Agarwal is secretary of the commission.

The 6th Pay Commission was implemented with effect from January 1, 2006; the 5th from January 1, 1996, and the 4th from January 1, 1986.