The notification with regard to the Sixth Pay Commission award is ready and is currently being approved by statutory authorities. Sources said the dearness allowance effective this July is also likely to be announced the same day.
The Centre on Tuesday said it cannot give blanket assurance to states to help them come out of financial problems following implementation of the 6th Pay Commission awards by them.
The Planning Commission does not foresee any significant disruption of state finances on account of increase in salaries of state government employees.
The government may defer the implementation of the sixth Pay Commission award by a year or even two to reduce the fiscal burden of the recommendations that proposed a 28 per cent across-the-board salary increase for an estimated 4.5 million central government employees. The report of the commission headed by Justice BN Srikrishna was submitted to the government on March 24 this year, nearly a fortnight before its 18-month tenure was to end.
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