TIOL-DDT 849 · Tuesday, 22 April 2008 · story 5 of 5

Better pay for defence and civil servants – champion is PM

“I would like our civil and defence services to be properly rewarded. I also believe that the tax payers will not grudge anyone of us better remuneration as long as we are serving the best interests of our people, most efficiently” – this is the Prime Minister assuring the civil and may be not so civil servants that they are likely to get a better deal than what the Pay Commission has recommended. Let's hope his FM agrees. The PM had been a government servant but the FM had no such bitter experience.