Special Pay for difficult regions - Board invites suggestions from field
It was suggested at a Chief Commissioners conference that officers posted in the Border and other difficult regions should be given a special pay. Now what are difficult posts? Is it at Leh or North Block? Does a small special pay, usually not more than five hundred rupees really help? In the difficult areas, can't you make life a little better by offering facilities like accommodation, vehicle, communication and entertainment facilities apart from an incentive of a choice posting after a fixed tenure?
Difficulty in posting is not geographical alone and when it comes to a special pay, there are many well deserving claims. Don't the officers working in the Board, who work donkey's hours, facing the wrath of all concerned and not so concerned from the Minister down and who do not get any appreciation for their good work, deserve a special pay? Don't the officers working in specialised fields deserve a special pay? But then there will be too many claimants and everybody who works or avoids work will think that he is the only one who deserves a special pay. Even the protocol boys may demand it - really tricky!
F.No. A-26017/157/2007-Ad.II.A Dated : September 28, 2007