7th CPC News : Central Minister in favour of seventh pay commission
New Delhi : With a little over a year to go before the next general
election, the demand for a Seventh Pay Commission has started to gather
momentum. Union housing and urban poverty alleviation minister Ajay
Maken has taken the lead in endorsing the Central government employees'
request for setting up of the new pay panel, citing the erosion of real
wages due to high inflation since implementation of the Sixth Pay
Commission's recommendations.
In a letter addressed to Prime Minister Manmohon Singh, Maken underlined
how every pay panel since the Second Pay Commission, barring the Sixth
Pay Commission, were set up in the third year of the decade. "We are
again in the third year of the ongoing decade and Central government
employees are justifiably looking forward to the Seventh Pay
Commission," he said.
Recalling that it was under Singh that the last pay panel was set up in
2005, after the NDA government failed to do so in 2003, Maken, in the
communication dated March 14, requested that a decision be "taken on
priority" for constitution of the Seventh Pay Commission. A notification
for constitution of the 7th Central Pay Commission is the need of the
hour, which is bound to have bearing upon about 20 million employees,"
he said.
Maken concluded by emphasizing that setting up of the new pay panel was
in "larger interest of government employees as well as the (Congress)
party".
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