The armed forces seems to be unhappy with the cabinet approval of the
Seventh Pay Commission recommendations saying the anomalies that they
had highlighted has not been taken care of.
Defence minister Manohar Parrikar admitted that “some” of the
recommendations that he had strongly pushed on behalf of the armed
forces have “not” been accepted.
We are still awaiting finer details to come out but on the look of it
there are “not bright spots” as of now, defence sources said.
They said that the fact that the government has set up a committee to
look into anomalies arising out of implementation of the Commission’s
report is itself an indicator that their concerns have not been taken
into account
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The only good feature is that instead of creating one committee like all
previous government’s have done, this government has set up multiple
ones to look into anomalies, allowance and others, the sources said.
Sources said the demand for uniform pay matrix has not been taken into
account and that the allowances have not been brought at par with
civilian employees.
Non implementation of common pay matrix means that defence pay matrix
will be restricted to 24 pay levels even though the bureaucratic pay
level is 40.
Another issue of concern is the non-implementation of Non Functional
Upgradation (NFU) which would have allowed armed forces personnel to get
upper grade of salary even when not promoted like their civilian
counterparts.
One of the main grudge that the armed forces have is with regard to
risk-hardship matrix. The officers say that a soldier posted in Siachen
Glacier, which has the highest degree of both risk and hardship, gets an
allowance of Rs 31,500 per month.
In contrast, a civilian bureaucrat from the All India Services draws 30
per cent of his salary as “hardship allowance” when posted anywhere
outside the comfort zone.
Under the new scale, a senior IAS official posted in a city in northeast
will draw much more as “hardship allowance”, compared to the Rs 31,500
per month drawn by military officers in Siachen.
Why and how ? ,every time at every pay Comm soldiers legitimate edge of pay from soft and comfort civil service are tinkered & eroded.!
ReplyDeleteThis disparity and devide is widened ,with compounding effect of accumulated unresolved anomalies .
Who is perpetuating these on National Armed Forces? ,against national interests.
The Nation- Govt inclusive of netas,babus and jernails have to resolve .fix it.
Don't abdicate this responsibility.
Can't evade the problem by simply stating that AF are unhappy.
For too long the teeth of the Generals became blunt, hence no one can change the system. Accept the defeat gracefully as in the past
DeleteWhy one needs pay commissions at all?After every decade!When dere is no intention to help govt serv/soldiers.Is dere anywhere in d world day 2 day complexities r solved a decade earlier.Elections r held once in 5yrs.....pay commissions?
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