Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati on Monday announced the state would revise the salary of an estimated 721,000 employees on the lines of the pay panel recommendations. The state commission, headed by Jagmohan Lal Bajaj, will submit a report on pay revision by December. The additional financial burden is estimated at Rs 5,189 crore (Rs 51.89 billion) per annum excluding arrears payment, which is pegged at Rs 14,775 crore (Rs 147.75 billion).
The Cabinet on Tuesday approved the Terms of Reference (ToR) of the 8th Pay Commission, which is likely to be implemented from January 1, 2026.
The West Bengal cabinet has decided to discontinue assistance-oriented schemes based on religious categorisation for Imams, muezzins and purohits from June. The cabinet also approved the 'Annapurna' scheme of Rs 3,000 monthly support to women from June 1, and granted in-principle consent for their free travel in state-run buses.
State governments want the Centre to direct the 14th Finance Commission to compensate states for implementing pay scales, to be recommended by the pay panel.
The pay hike has been made effective from January 1, 2016.
The Railways is expected to mobilise a substantial chunk of funds through dynamic pricing.
A parliamentary panel has criticized the Indian government for withholding funds from states that have not agreed to implement the PM SHRI schools scheme, calling the reasoning behind the decision "not factual or justified." The panel has recommended the immediate release of pending funds to states like Kerala, Tamil Nadu, and West Bengal, which have been significantly impacted by the delays.
The Commission will now have time until December 31 to submit its report.
In an obvious bid to be one up on her latest number one political foe, the Congress, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati on Monday declared in the State Assembly that her government would promptly implement the recommendations of the Sixth Pay Commission.
The new pay scale will come into effect from January 1.
Punjab has over 400,000 employees and pensioners and about 125,000 staff members in its corporations and boards.
If all goes well, the new season of ISL may start in the first week of February.
Currently, an IAS and IFS officer are accorded a pay advantage or financial edge.
This time, five states, including Tamil Nadu, have requested the Centre to delay the pay hikes.
The Cabinet, which met in Jammu under the chairmanship of chief minister Omar Abdullah on Thursday evening, approved the recommendations of the Cabinet Sub Committee on implementation of the 6th Pay Commission, including one that there shall be no lock-in period for withdrawal of arrears deposited to the GP Fund.
It should be noted that the CPC allocation is provisional.
Employees and workers will meet on November 27 to protest against the recommendations
Though the government obn Thursday in principle accepted the Services' demand for restoring 70 per cent 'extant pensionary weightage' to jawans on the basis of their last drawn pay, the Armed Forces are cut up with the finance ministry over the rejection of their three other demands concerning officers. The CPC had recommended that the jawans be given 50 per cent 'pensionary weightage' and provided an option of lateral entry into paramilitary and central police forces.
'There'll be extended periods where things aren't working in your favour. But if you believe in the cause profoundly, then you simply persevere.'
Pensions as a percentage of total wages and other allowances paid to government employees, defence and railway personnel in 2009-10 are expected to be 43.77 per cent, down from 48 per cent a year ago. In 2007-08, this ratio was 50.49 per cent. While the increase in expenses due to salaries and pensions have been attributed to the SPC recommendations, experts are not sure why pensions as a percentage of total salaries have been decreasing over the years.
Madhya Pradesh has nearly 750,000 employees who would share the benefit of the pay hike.
Opening up the corner office is fine, but will the government be able to attract talent without giving a market-rate salary?, asks Tamal Bandyopadhyay.
Jaitley said the government has been able to improve its budgeted expenditure.
The Sixth Pay Commission on Monday submitted its report to the government presumably recommending a 40 per cent hike in salary for the central government employees. The commission, headed by Justice B N Srikrishna, submitted its report to Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Monday morning.
The GST Council on Wednesday approved a two-tier rate structure of 5 and 18 per cent, which will be implemented from September 22.
The Supreme Court has raised concerns about discrimination against persons with disabilities in employment, questioning the Centre on the lack of 'upward movement' for meritorious candidates. The court also ordered nationwide monitoring of care institutions for persons with cognitive disabilities.
Gujarat and Jharkhand are most favourably placed in terms of smaller share of public sector employees and lower liability on pension, wages and salaries.
While still not as drool-worthy as their private sector counterparts, the hike is quite hefty, and across segments
More incentives will be given to agriculture sector for increasing agriculture production.
Income tax at source would be deducted only on 40 per cent of salary arrears to central government employees in the current fiscal on implementation of Sixth Pay Commission recommendations, government said on Tuesday.
The finance minister may stagger some of the recommendations.
The notes argue that it will widen the talent base available to govt to deliver increasingly complex services to a demanding population.
Home and kitchen appliances, electronic products, apparel and B-segment cars stand to gain.
The recommendations will benefit 47 lakh central government employees and 52 lakh pensioners.
The more market driven the economy becomes, the more its government sector should function in its basics like the rest of the economy.
Evangelia Trikomiti, president of the Superior Jury at the competition, was found to have "unduly interfered" with the judges' work, after which the Polish Gymnastics Federation and some members of the Judges Panel made allegations of wrongdoing to the GEF.
The pay panel had in November recommended 14.27 per cent hike in basic pay at junior levels.
'CORSIA has set impossible targets. It tries to limit countries to the emission levels of the number of aircraft that they had in 2020. That has to be opposed.'
He said Parrikar had no right or authority to order the services chiefs to accept what is not acceptable to them, adding he had once again shown his inability to understand the services.
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