Government Servants not happy with Pay Commission - to protest - ye dil mange more
GOVERNMENT servants don't seem to be happy with the Pay Commission Report. The National Joint Council of Action (NJAC) of Central Government Employees has strongly protested and decided to observe a massive demonstration on 27th November 2015 all over India. They say:
1. The Central Government Employees are totally disappointed with the adverse recommendations of the Seventh Pay Commission.
2. While giving a bonanza to higher level officers, the commission has completely ignored low paid employees.
3. The demand of the staff side of the National Council of JCM to fix the minimum pay at Rs 26,000 was completely rejected by the pay panel and this was arbitrarily fixed at Rs 18,000.
4. Public was misled by the statement that a hike of 23.5% was granted to employees whereas the actual increase was only 14.29%.
5. While the minimum wage is fixed at Rs 18,000, secretary level officers will be paid Rs 225,000 and the cabinet secretary's salary is fixed at Rs 250,000. The National Council - JCM (Staff Side) had demanded that the ratio between minimum pay and maximum pay should be not more than 1:8 but the CPC has kept the ratio as 1:13.8
6. Central Government employees are totally upset, dissatisfied and disappointed.
DDT was subject to some vitriolic attack, mostly from Central Excise Superintendents, for its comments on the Pay Commission. Choicest abuses flew in for mentioning that it was a bonanza for the babus.
I spoke to a senior Revenue officer of absolute doubtless integrity, whose words are worth quoting and following by all government servants.
"It is a poor country and any hike the government gives to its employees should be gratefully accepted. I am a public servant I know that I cannot hope to get the salaries that some others get and I knew this when I joined the service. The day I decide that money is the most important criterion for a job, I will quit and try to do something that will give me money - if I can.”
Somewhere down the line our babus forgot that they are ‘civil servants' - they are neither civil nor are they servants. The citizens who are their masters are totally ignored.
The Government must have also expected this kind of reactions and must be ready to give a little more than what the Pay Commission recommended. Great economists (especially those among the government employees) are floating a theory that Pay Commission will spur a great economic revival in the country.
To start with about 15 to 20 percent of the hike will come back to the Government as Income Tax. When the Government employees spend this ‘more' money, it will bring in excise duty and service tax. Manufacture will get a boost with higher demand for luxury goods like cars and TVs and when companies earn more profit, they will pay more income tax. All a win win win situation for all concerned!