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S.ravi
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 Posted - 09/25/2008 : 12:23:10
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Government gives 'in principle' nod to pay demand for jawans
25 Sep, 2008, 2004 hrs IST,
NEW DELHI: The government has agreed to restore 70 per cent "pensionary weightage" to jawans, even as Defence chiefs on Thursday intensified efforts to get "anomalies" in the 6th Pay Commission notification removed.
"The government has given in principle approval to reverting to the 70 per cent pensionary weightage, as demanded by the Services, overruling the 50 per cent recommended by the Central Pay Commission (CPC), providing much-needed relief just before this Diwali," top Defence Ministry sources told reporters here.
Espousing their cause, the Services chiefs today apprised Cabinet Secretary K M Chandrasekhar and officials in the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) on the issues.
Earlier, jawans used to get 70 per cent of their last drawn pay as pension calculated on the basis of their 10-month average salary before retirement.
Under the CPC notification, the jawans, who form the backbone of the Armed Forces but retire at a relatively young age, are to be provided with the option of lateral entry in to the Central police forces and paramilitary and in return, they would get reduced "pensionary weightage" of 50 per cent.
In order to resolve this issue, Defence Minister A K Antony had written a strong letter to both Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Finance Minister P Chidambaram, particularly batting for the jawan's pensionary benefits, reduced by the CPC.
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S.ravi
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Posted - 09/26/2008 : 20:53:14
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In a move that sent shockwaves through the government, the defence services came closest to the equivalent of a public protest and did not submit their revised salary bills to the defence ministry’s accounts office, thus effectively deferring the implementation of the Sixth Pay Commission report “with the existing anomalies”.
“The armed forces have not raised their pay vouchers in accordance with the 6th Central Pay Commission notification and have submitted the bills according to the old pay scales,” said a defence ministry source.
Though the government had yesterday 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 angry with the finance ministry over the rejection of their three other demands concerning officers.
The commission had recommended that the jawans be given 50 per cent “pensionary weightage” and given an option of lateral entry into paramilitary and central police forces. The armed forces wanted the lateral entry scheme to be approved and implemented before the 50 per cent “pensionary weightage” came into effect.
“We have accepted salaries under the old pay scales as we expect the government to take a quick decision on all our demands soon after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh returns from his US visit on October 1,” said an armed forces officer.
Defence Minister A K Antony and the three services chiefs have already represented to the prime minister on the four “core issues” they have with the commission’s notification.
Navy chief Admiral Sureesh Mehta and Army chief General Deepak Kapoor met Cabinet Secretary KM Chandrasekhar and the PMO (prime minister’s office) officials yesterday to apprise him of the “anger” among the 70,000 officers over their demands not finding favour with the bureaucracy.
They also requested the country’s top political leadership to decide on their demands and keep the commission notification in abeyance till the issues raised by them were resolved.
“It is a matter of less than Rs 450 crore annually if the government accepts the four demands of the armed forces, which is not a huge burden on the exchequer,” said an officer.
Among the other demands of the armed forces are placing Lt Colonels and their equivalents in the Navy and Air Force under Pay Band-4 instead of Pay Band-3, Grade Pay to officers from Captains to Brigadiers on a par with their civilian counterparts, and placing Lt Generals in the Higher Administrative Grade (HAG) Plus pay scales as the director generals of paramilitary and police forces.
The services, after representing to the government about the pay commission anomalies, had expected that the government would have accepted their recommendations. Instead, the government has taken no action, though it has not rejected the proposals either.
This, in effect, would mean that over 5 million civilian government employees would this month take home higher pay along with the arrears since 2006 while the 1.3 million armed forces personnel will reconcile with the old salaries to send a strong message to the government.
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Posted - 09/27/2008 : 04:31:00
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| THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Anomalies in pay scales for defence personnel in the Sixth Pay Commission will be sorted out soon, and the armed forces "will celebrate Diwali" by collecting their new salaries, Defence Minister AK Antony promised here on Saturday |
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Posted - 09/27/2008 : 04:33:28
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Govt sets up panel to review Defence forces pay hike
27 Sep 2008, 1235 hrs IST,PTI
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NEW DELHI: The Government on Saturday formed a high-level committee headed by External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee to address Armed forces' concerns over "anomalies" in the Central Pay Commission (CPC) report. ( Watch )
Following this, the Services decided to accept the revised pay scales "for the moment" and submit the salary bills to the Defence Ministry on Monday.
The three-member committee was constituted following a direction from Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who is currently abroad, government sources said.
The Armed forces had on Friday refused to accept the revised pay scales and did not submit the salary bills for October.
However, the Defence forces have now agreed to accept the pay scales with the existing "anomalies", but would wait for a decision from the committee in which Defence Minister A K Antony and Finance Minister P Chidambaram would be members.
Consequently, all Defence personnel would receive new pay along with the 40 per cent arrears on October 1.
The Armed forces anger stems from the disparity in the pay they get and that of other government servants. Moreover, the forces are losing a pool of talent to the private sector. These are the men who lead our army into battle -- a job that calls for selfless service but when it comes to getting paid these men are far behind others of their experience and ability.
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Posted - 09/27/2008 : 10:36:23
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Allowances Updated
Recommendations of the Sixth Central Pay Commission relating to encashment of leave in respect of Central Government civilian employees
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Posted - 09/27/2008 : 10:45:36
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http:Allowances Updated
» » Recommendations of the Sixth Central Pay Commission relating to eligibility for encashment of leave
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Posted - 09/28/2008 : 08:09:15
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No differences with government on Pay Panel: General Kapoor
28 Sep 2008, 1505 hrs IST,PTI
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NEW DELHI: The armed forces on Sunday said they had no differences with the government, amid reports that Defence Minister A K Antony had conveyed his unhappiness over their unprecedented refusal to implement the pay commission notification and got them around to accept the revised salaries temporarily.
"I just want to clarify that this talk of differences between the armed forces and the government...I think that is not right," Army chief General Deepak Kapoor told reporters here after laying a wreath at the Amar Jawan Jyothi in India Gate to mark Gunners Day.
"The fact that the Defence Ministry, Defence Minister and the Prime Minister are with us shows that he (Antony) is also part of the government, as we are. So there are no differences. I think it has been played up a little incorrectly," Kapoor said.
Giving defence personnel reasons to cheer before Diwali, the government had on Saturday ordered release of their ad-hoc arrears for the current year this week, even as the government said the armed forces would submit fresh salary vouchers on Monday, paving the way for the 1.5 million personnel to take home the revised pay on October 1.
But the "discriminatory" pay commission report would come under fresh scrutiny with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who is abroad, setting up a high-level ministerial committee to address their grievances.
After the CPC notification late last month, Naval chief Admiral Sureesh Mehta, Air chief Fali Homi Major and Army chief General Deepak Kapoor had openly expressed their disappointment over the "disparities" to the country's political leadership and to Cabinet Secretary K M Chandrasekhar.
Antony also wrote to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Finance Minister P Chidambaram seeking a resolution of the four "core issues" of the defence personnel.
The defence personnel had sought 70 per cent "pensionary weightage" to jawans, placing Lieutenant-Colonels in Pay Band-4, parity of Grade Pay between defence officers and civilian counterparts and according Higher Administrative Grade Plus scales to Lieutenant-Generals and their equivalents in Navy and Air Force in the CPC.
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Posted - 10/07/2008 : 20:32:29
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New Delhi: As the controversy over the armed forces’ reluctance to implement the Pay Commission report rages, former cricketer Kapil Dev on Tuesday said their grievances could have been sorted out internally and should not have come out into the open.
“If they (armed forces) have a demand, it is their internal matter and should not have come out before the common man,” Kapil Dev told reporters after donating blood at a camp organised by the Territorial Army here.
The Government had recently appointed Kapil Dev as an honorary Lieutenant-Colonel in the Territorial Army and named him a brand ambassador to attract new talent to the defence forces.
“Everyone wants an increase in their pay. All of us want to lead better lives,” he said.-- PTI
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Posted - 10/07/2008 : 20:37:01
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Performance-based incentive scheme now on a voluntary basis
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The department of science and technology (DST) that took the lead in formulating a performance-related incentive scheme for research organizations it funds, now plans to implement the scheme on a voluntary basis because some beneficiary organizations are still not convinced of the efficacy of the scheme.The dept of science and technology proposes to scrap annual confidential reports
The Sixth Pay Commission had carried out a study through the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, on a performance-based incentive system, to ostensibly improve the performance outputs of Central government employees.
The study, according to the official website of the pay commission, was aimed at working out a model whereby a base salary is attached to each post based on skills and responsibility and simultaneously, a second component would be payable over and above the salary on the basis of the productivity and performance of employees, either individually or as a group.
The study recommended an annual bonus of up to 20% to employees whose achievements exceed certain targets, which has been accepted by the cabinet.
The government has also given in-principle approval to contractual postings in government departments of employees hired from private sector.
As reported previously in Mint, a finance ministry official who didn’t wish to be identified had recently said that DST has already moved to put in place an incentive-based system.
“Once DST implements it, we expect there will be pressure on other government departments to follow suit,” this official had added.
“Some people aren’t convinced yet and so we will be implementing this on a voluntary basis,” said a senior official in the ministry of science and technology, who didn’t want to be identified.
DST is the largest funder, excluding the atomic energy and space ministries, of basic research programmes in the country. It is the most important source of funds for nearly 17 autonomous organizations that are working in a range of fields from astronomy to biology.
“But I’m confident that once a few adopt, the rest will come around,” the same official added.
One major change the scheme proposes is to do away with the current annual confidential reports and bring in annual performance management reports.
Here a 12-point criteria matrix would be drawn up, that evaluate criteria such as the number of articles published in peer-reviewed journals, impact factors of the journals, (These measures refer to how often a particular research paper is cited by peers in the field, and the frequency of well-cited research papers appearing in a particular journal) and the quality and impact of new schemes initiated (by scientists on the managerial side).
“One of the measures suggested for annual review is impact factor of a journal, and citation indexes. However, it would be unfair to use the same scale to compare output in veterinary sciences to (that in) nanotechnology, as nanotech is a much hotter field than vet sciences. A good paper on vet sciences will never be highly cited. That’s how the system works,” said a scientist, who didn’t want to be identified given the sensitivity of the issue, at the Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, one of the autonomous research institutes funded by the DST.
Another proposal in the scheme that hasn’t gone down well is to have independent experts from other institutions rate scientists, which, the formulators of the scheme say,will help remove bias and infuse transparency in the rating system, said a DST official familiar with discussions on the scheme.
Moreover, the scheme is expected to be budget-neutral, meaning no extra funds will be provided. “Finance committees are extremely tight anyway. So obviously the extra money will come from cuts in laboratory tests, and stricter controls in procuring equipment,” the scientist from the Wadia institute added.
The department currently plans to allot Rs60-70 crore in the first phase, beginning this year.
However, many scientists seem to be receptive of performance incentives, as the only way they can hope for substantial increments is to get promoted.
In government labs, scientist grades vary from A to G, the latter being the highest, and on an average it takes about 20 years to go from A to G.
“I think it would be welcome. Even at F and G, pay hikes are not substantial. There are more perks like allowances for subscribing to journals, and increased funds for attending international conferences,” said Madhavan Rajeevan, a scientist at the Indian Space Research Organisation and formerly with the India Meteorological Department, which follows a pay structure similar to DST.
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