Govt sets up Committee of Secretaries to screen Pay Commission recommendations

28 Jan 2016 Evaluate

In order to process the recommendations of the 7th Central Pay Commission, the government has set up a 13-member Empowered Committee of Secretaries (CoS) headed by Cabinet Secretary. The committee has secretaries from ministries of Home Affairs and Defence, department of personnel and training, pension and PW, revenue, expenditure, posts, health, and science and technology. Chairman of Railway Board, Deputy CAG and Secretary (Security) in the Cabinet Secretariat are also on the panel.

The Empowered Committee will function as a Screening Committee to screen the recommendations of the Commission after taking into account the views of the concerned stakeholders, viz, the Ministries/Departments, Staff Associations and the JCM. The Implementation Cell created in the Department of Expenditure shall function as Secretariat for the Empowered Committee of Secretaries. The final recommendations of the Empowered Committee of Secretaries will be submitted for approval of the Cabinet.

The implementation of the new pay scales is estimated to put an additional burden of Rs 1.02 lakh crore on the exchequer in 2016-17. Subject to acceptance by the government, they will take effect from January 1, 2016. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley had said that there is no worry about fiscal deficit and government would be able to meet its target despite additional outgo on account of higher pay.

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