Over 100 workers of the MSRTC had staged the protest outside 'Silver Oak', Pawar's bungalow on Pedder Road in south Mumbai on Friday afternoon, catching the police unawares.
As around 5,000 nurses went on strike from the afternoon hampering patient care services at the premier hospital, AIIMS Director Randeep Guleria in a video message termed the strike in the time of pandemic as "inappropriate and unfortunate".
On Monday, around 5,000 nurses of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi went on a strike over their long pending demands, including those with regard to the Sixth Central Pay Commission.
Maharashtra minister and NCP leader Nawab Malik on Thursday accused NCB's zonal director Sameer Wankhede and his family of obtaining two separate certificates of his mother following her death in 2015, each mentioning her as Muslim and Hindu.
Madhya Pradesh has nearly 750,000 employees who would share the benefit of the pay hike.
Narendra Modi's real legacy will be if he can redesign the IAS and the concept of an all-India service, argues T C A Srinivasa Raghavan.
Is there a conflict of interest in civil servants having a decisive say on the recommendations made by a Pay Commission or is it time for a new review mechanism, asks A K Bhattacharya.
After considering the increase proposed in allowances, the hike in remunerations comes to 23.55 per cent.
The Commission will now have time until December 31 to submit its report.
'Seven hundred farmers lost their lives.' 'The protesting farmers were demonised and called names like andolanjiwi, Khalistani, anti-national.'
In a general notice, the railways said, 'Such misguided activities are the highest level of indiscipline rendering such aspirants unsuitable for railway/government job. Videos of such activities will be examined...and candidates/aspirants found indulged in unlawful activities will be liable for police action as well as lifetime debarment from obtaining railway job.'
Funeral and cycles allowances have been retained and revised.
A slew of sops were announced for teachers, employees of municipalities and others.
Officials cited the example of the Sixth Pay Commission.
The MSP was introduced to the services recognising their unique service conditions and hardships.
The pay hike has been made effective from January 1, 2016.
People like Manmohan Singh and P Chidambaram, who as finance minister had fully supported the NPS, refuse to exercise their moral and political influence to try and stop Ashok Gehlot and others hell-bent on wrecking the states' finances, notes Virendra Kapoor.
There are 1.9 million employees and 650,000 pensioners in Maharashtra.
The proposed hike is in accordance with the accepted formula based on the recommendations of the 6th Pay Commission
Experts said the higher pay out will boost consumption demand.
The state has close to 280,000 employees and 180,000 pensioners.
It will benefit about 48.34 lakh central government employees and 65.26 lakh pensioners.
'He is not looking at the interest of farmers. He only wants to do the politics of elections.' 'This Budget is for the new super India. It is exploiting the villages of Bharat.'
Central pay commissions in the past have usually been set up after every 10 years and the 10-year period of the current sixth central pay commission would be over by 2015.
All interest free advances stand discontinued with the exception of interest free advance for medical treatment, travelling allowance for family of deceased, travelling allowance on tour or transfer and leave travel concession
Indian economy grew 7.9 per cent in the March quarter.
"The amount of both the family pensions will now be restricted to Rs 1,25,000 per month, which is over two and half times higher than the earlier limit," said Singh, the Minister of State for Personnel.
Mr Jaitley should devise methods to attract better talents at the higher level.
The outgo towards salary will further rise in 2017-18 to over Rs 1.28 lakh crore.
A demand for raising wages and allowances of MPs was made in the Rajya Sabha on Friday with members demanding that their salaries should be higher than the revised scale of the Cabinet Secretary.
'Political parties are following the Divide and Rule policy to break the unity of farmers.'
'The non-implementation of the Seventh Pay Commission, almost a year after it was implemented for civilians, is gradually beginning to hurt morale in the armed forces,' says Brigadier Gurmeet Kanwal (retd).
The pay panel had in November recommended 14.27 per cent hike in basic pay at junior levels.
The Seventh Pay Commission had decided to choose the CPI-IW as the index for adjusting inflation for central government employees.
The hike will benefit about 48.41 lakh central government employees and 62.03 lakh pensioners.
Jaitley said the government has been able to improve its budgeted expenditure.
The current salary paid by the Delhi government amounts to 17 per cent of the total expenditure.
The challenge of cleaning up the taxation system and introducing the goods and services tax (GST) regime cannot be underestimated.
The new pay scale will come into effect from January 1.
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Sunday unveiled its manifesto for the West Bengal elections, promising to build a 'Sonar Bangla' by providing employment, strengthening social security schemes and vowing to clear the implementation of the Citizenship Amendment Act in the first cabinet meeting of the new government.
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