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Setting up of 7th CPC Anomaly Committee – Dopt orders on 16.8.2016 Not Revising HRA as per 7th CPC Recommendation is a big disappointment 7th Pay Commission: Salary arrears to Central govt employees estimated at Rs. 34,600 crore Setting up of 7th CPC Anomaly Committee – Dopt orders on 16.8.2016 Posted: 17 Aug 2016 08:18 PM PDT Setting up of 7th CPC Anomaly Committee – Dopt orders on 16.8.2016 Setting up of Anomaly Committee to settle the Anomalies arising out of the implementation of the Seventh Pay Commission's recommendations. No.11/2/2016-JCA Government of India Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and pensions Department of Personnel & Training JCA Section North Block, New Delhi Dated the 16th August, 2016 OFFICE MEMORANDUM Subject: Setting up of Anomaly Committee to settle the Anomalies arising out of the implementation of the Seventh Pay Commission's recommendations. The undersigned is directed to say that it has been decided that Anomaly Committees should be set up, consisting of representatives of the Officials Side and the Staff Side to settle the anomalies arising out of the implementation of the 7th Pay Commission's recommendations, subject to the following conditions, namely: (1) Definition of Anomaly Anomaly will include the following cases: (a) where the Official Side and the Staff Side are of the opinion that any recommendation is in contravention of the principle or the policy enunciated by the Seventh Central Pay Commission itself without the Commission assigning any reason; and (b) where the maximum of the Level in the Pay Matrix corresponding to the applicable Grade Pay in the Pay Band under the pre-revised structure, as notified vide CCS (RP) Rules 2016, is less than the amount an employee is entitled to be fixed at, as per the formula for fixation of pay contained in the said Rules". (2) Composition: There will be two levels of Anomaly Committees, National and Departmental, consisting of representatives of the Official Side and the Staff Side of the National Council and the Departmental Council respectively. (3) The Departmental Anomaly Committee may be chaired by the Additional Secretary (Admn.) or the Joint Secretary (Admn.), if there is no post of Additional Secretary (Admn.). Financial Adviser of the Ministry / Department shall be one of the Member of the Departmental Anomaly Committee. (4) The National Anomaly Committee will deal with anomalies common to two or more Departments and in respect of common categories of employees. The Departmental Anomaly Committee will deal with anomalies pertaining exclusively to the Department concerned and having no repercussions on the employees of another Ministry / Department in the opinion of the Financial Adviser. (5) The Anomaly Committee shall receive anomalies through Secretary, Staff Side of respective Council upto six months from the date of its constitution and it will finally dispose of all the anomalies within a period of one year from the date of its constitution. Any recommendations of the Anomaly Committee to resolve the anomaly shall be subject to the approval of the Government. (6) Cases where there is a dispute about the definition of "anomaly" and those where there is a disagreement between the Staff Side and the Official Side on the anomaly will be referred to and "Arbitrator" to be appointed out of a panel of names proposed by the two sides. However, this arbitration will not be a part of the JCM Scheme. (7) The Arbitrator so appointed shall consider the disputed cases arising in the Anomaly Committees at the National as well as Department level. (8) Orders regarding appointment of the Arbitrator and constitution of Anomaly Committee at National Level will be issued separately. All Ministries / Departments are accordingly requested to take urgent action to set up the Anomaly Committees for settlement of anomalies arising out of implementation of the 7th Pay Commission's recommendations, as stipulated above. sd/- (G. Srinivasan) Deputy Secretary (JCA) Authority: www.persmin.gov.in Not Revising HRA as per 7th CPC Recommendation is a big disappointment Posted: 17 Aug 2016 08:14 PM PDT Not Revising HRA as per 7th CPC Recommendation is a big disappointment…! 7th Pay Commission submitted its Recommendation in November 2016. House Rent Allowance is one of the very important recommendation expected by CG Employees among the most expected recommendations. A Govt servant is spending one third of his salary for paying House Rent. Considering these expenses of CG Employees those who are living in big cities, Sixth CPC has recommended 10, 20 and 30% of the Basic pay as HRA. Accordingly, HRA has been paid for the past Eight Years and the Federation Demanded to increase this rates in 7th Pay Commission. But the Commission in its recommendation reduced these rates to 8,16 and 24%. Though it has been justified with various reasons by 7th CPC, it disappointed the CG employees. Since CG Employees felt that only these reduced rates will be paid for next ten years, their demand to restore the old rates started gaining big support. As a result of this, all the Staff associations and Federations pressurized the Government to increase the rate of HRA and it was included in charter of 7th CPC demands. Already the Government had wasted six months in the name of Empowered Committee to examine the 7th CPC Recommendations. Until now the report of this committee is not published. The Cabinet gave its approval for the implementation of 7th CPC recommendations on 29th June 2016. It has been stated in that report that, a committee headed by Secretary, Finance will be Constituted to examine the Allowances and committee is given four-month time to submit its report. Till then the HRA will be paid as per Sixth CPC rates. Meanwhile, Group of Ministers invited NJCA for a meeting to with draw the Indefinite Strike proposed to commence from 11th July, In that meeting, Increasing the percentage of HRA also discussed. The Government agreed to form a committee to examine the Allowances. It has been described as Government indirectly agreed to increase the HRA. Implementation of 7th CPC recommendation was ensured by Gazette Notification issued on 25th July 2016. But there was no Change in the recommendation of HRA. Till now the Central Government employees are wondering that why the Committee has been given four Months' Time to examine the HRA. As well as the decision to continue the HRA in Sixth CPC is considered as big disappointment. HRA plays a Major Role in pay hike. So the CG Staff feel that HRA would have been paid in Revised rates from this month onwards. Thereafter paying arrears for the Increased amount in HRA will become inevitable. Because there is no assurance that Revised rates of HRA will be given retrospective effect. Why does the Government hesitate to implement this? CLICK TO CALCULATE 'EXPECTED 7TH CPC HRA' 7th Pay Commission: Salary arrears to Central govt employees estimated at Rs. 34,600 crore Posted: 17 Aug 2016 08:10 PM PDT 7th Pay Commission: Salary arrears to Central govt employees estimated at Rs. 34,600 crore The outgo on account of salary arrears and payments for August for Central government employees has been pegged at Rs. 34,600 crore by ratings agency India Ratings. The 7th Central Pay Commission (CPC) recommendations implemented by the Central government will entail a payment of Rs. 34,600 crore towards salary arrears for seven months and August wages to employees, according to a ratings agency. The hike in the salary component as recommended by the 7th Central Pay Commission (CPC) was accepted with retrospective effect from January 1, 2016. "The combined outgo for the center on account of arrears for January to July and payments for August will total to Rs. 346 bn (Rs. 34,600 crore)," India Ratings and Research Pvt Ltd. (Ind-Ra) said in a statement on Wednesday. On the flip side, this is likely to result in a "go slow" approach by the Narendra Modi government, according to the agency. "The government is likely to go slow on spending as it gears up to meet lumpy payments (other than regular payments)," Ind-Ra said in its statement. However, the impact won't be much on the government's finances. "The outgo due to a hike in salaries and pensions, in line with the Seventh Central Pay Commission's (7CPC) recommendations, is unlikely to cause significant systemic liquidity disruptions," the ratings agency said. The salary hike announced by the Modi government in accordance with the recommendations of the 7th CPC covers about 1 crore employees and pensioners. There are about 53 lakh pensioners and 47 lakh Central government employees, of which 14 lakh employees and 18 lakh pensioners are from the defence forces. A decision on increasing allowances will be taken approximately by November, according to an official statement by the government in June. "Given the significant changes in the existing provisions for Allowances which may 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. The Committee will complete its work in a time bound manner and submit its reports within a period of 4 months. Till a final decision, all existing Allowances will continue to be paid at the existing rates," the June 29 statement said. The pay commission had recommended abolition of 51 allowances and subsuming 37 others after examining 196 allowances. Source : ibtimes