News for ' Seventh Central Pay Commission'

The 7th CPC places the Indian Police Service (and, almost in passing, the Indian Forest Service) on a level with the Indian Administrative Service, leaving the military out in the cold, observes...

Central government employees will no longer get a family planning allowance and the cabinet secretary his monthly entertainment allocation. Also gone are the diet, haircutting and 'soap toilet'...

Union minister Jitendra Singh on Friday said that in a far-reaching reform regarding family pensions the upper ceiling has been raised from Rs 45,000 to Rs 1.25 lakh per month. He said the move...

Railway job aspirants found involved in vandalism and unlawful activities while protesting will be barred from ever getting recruited in the railways, the national transporter said on Tuesday, a...

All personnel working in the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) will now retire at a uniform age of 60 years, a government order said on Monday. The Union home ministry order, accessed by PTI,...

The recommendations will cost the government Rs 1,02,000 crore. The Seventh Central Pay Commission, headed by ex-judge A K Mathur, gave its recommendations to the government on Thursday.  It...

Ahead of elections, the government on Wednesday announced constitution of the Seventh Pay Commission, which will go into the salaries, allowances and pensions of about 80 lakh (8 million) of its...

Govt is likely to find it hard to meet deficit target next year. In the wake of the Seventh Pay Commission's report, the Central government will find it tough to meet all three objectives -...

The Centre on Wednesday increased the Dearness Allowance (DA) by 3 percentage points effective from July 1 this year, benefitting more than 1 crore employees and pensioners ahead of the Diwali...

The Pay Commission process is symptomatic of a national crisis within the Indian state, says Rathin Roy. The government of India has implemented pay hikes drawing on the report of the Seventh Pay...