7th CPC Expected Pay-Media Hype :
7th Pay Commission news – Media require specialized approach rather than a
hype
After 7CPC itself announced in
last week of June 2015 to the
effect that it has started finalising the report to be submitted to the Govt,
News on 7th Pay Commission has started becoming popular.
It would be Needless to say all
Government Employees would be interested in 7th CPC report. Though common man
may not show much interest in the elaboration and technicalities of 7CPC
report, he/she will also be curious to know the quatum of increase in Pay of
Central Government Employees in General. At the same time, a common man will
always be depending on various News media such as News Prints and Television
channels to get these type of news.
But we could see that Pay Commission
related news provided by News Media nowadays are misleading in the sense that
they are only projecting the number of times the pay was hiked by previous Pay
commissions and likely hike by 7th Pay Commission.
Missing information will always be
misleading
For instance, it was reported by
a daily news paper recently, which was quoted later by
many blogs that Govt Salaries are set to increase by 2 to 3 times
and that 6th Pay Commission
suggested 3 times increase in Salaries. It was also reported that 5th CPC
recommended 2.6 times in increase in pay of lower Grade Officials.
A common man who
is reading this news would be easily mislead and he/she would come to
a conclusion that Salary of Government Employees was increased by 3 times by
6th CPC.
But the factual informations such as
86% of basic Pay paid as Dearness Allowance separtely was merged with Pay and
increase in pay by 1.86 times is only because of merger of DA with Pay, are
missing in this media report.
It is not expected that a news item
should report all the intricacies of a pay commission report. But the fact that
the net increase in the Pay of Central Government Employees after
implementation of 6th Pay Commission report which was around 25% and 40% for
most of lower / middle level employees and Higher level employees respectively,
should have been correctly reported in the public interest.
Even this net increase in pay was
only due to introduction of a new pay head called Grade Pay and as far as
pre-revised basic Pay is concerned (now called as Pay in Pay band) there is no
real increase except merger of DA with Pay.
In the case of Bank
Employees wage revision after 10th Wage Settlement signed recently, it
was correctly reported in news media that Bank
Employees would be getting net increase in pay to the extent of 15%.
This net increase in Pay is exclusive of merger of Dearness Allowance as
on Nov 2012 with Pay.
The above facts can easily be
verified by using the GConnect 6th Pay Commission Calculator, link of
which is given below. We can easily verify from the arrears report which will
be generated after we select pre-revised Pay Scale and a basic Pay
(with in the range of this pay scale) that Pre-revised Basic Pay as on
01.01.2006 and 6CPC revised Pay in Pay Band as on 01.01.2006 are one and the
same.
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