7th Pay Commission: Govt employees to get revised allowances from Oct 1; committee tosubmit report this week

7th Pay Commission: Govt employees to get revised allowances from Oct 1; committee tosubmit report this week

New Delhi: Government employees will havea real festive bonanza this year. As per media reports, central government employees will get the revised allowances as per recommendations made by 7th Pay Commission from October 1.

The Committee on Allowances under the chairmanship of Union Secretary, Finance (Expenditure) had on September 1 met with representatives of the Central government unions.

The committe is expected to give its reports on revised allowance to Finance Minister Arun Jaitley this week.

On July 22, the Committee on Allowances was set up to decide on revision of allowance as Justice A K Mathur panel had earlier recommended abolition of 51 allowances and subsuming 37 others.

E"The 7th Pay Commission examined a total of 196 existing allowances and, by way of rationalization, recommended abolition of 51allowances and subsuming of 37 allowances. Given the significant changes inthe existing provisions for allowances whichmay have wide ranging implications, the Cabinet decided to constitute a Committee headed by Finance Secretary for further examination of the recommendations of 7th CPC on allowances," a press release issued by the government after the Cabinet approvalto Pay Commission recommendations had said.

The government has notified a 2.57-time hike in basic salary for 1 crore government employees and pensioners as per the 7th Pay Commission recommendations. The payhike has been made effective January 1, 2016.

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