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Employees' agitation on cards as Govt says no to 7th Pay Commission 6/5/2016 12:22:54 AM Peerzada Ummer Early Times Report Srinagar, June 4: The JK government making it clear that it won't implement the recommendations of 7th Pay Commission has outraged the employees and they are mulling to launch an agitation to fight for pay hike. The government while presenting annual budget in the state assembly on May 30 expressed reluctance in implementing 7th Pay Commission recommendations in the cash starved state, maintaining that any extra burden on the state exchequer would prove detrimental for JK's fiscal health. However, the government left a window of hope open for the employees and said that it would be ready to initiate a debate in the House over the issue. Meanwhile, the opposition parties have already started castigating the government for saying no to the pay hike to more than 4.50 lakh state government employees. Furthermore, the employees' unions have started sharpening knives against the present regime with chances of series of strikes in the government run offices becoming higher with each passing day. Sources within these unions including the Employees Joint Action Committee (EJAC) divulged that comprehensive framework is being deliberated upon if the government continues its reluctance in implementing the recommendations of the 7th pay commission. "The centre government employees will get benefits of the commission from July this year and the state employees are even made to wait for months for the mere Dearness Allowance (DA). There has to be a comprehensive program for making the governments aware about the plight that the employees face despite discharging their duties as per the laid down procedure," said one of the employees leader, adding that a state wide stir would be launched against the government if it continues with the dilatory mode of functioning. Government in January had set up a high-powered panel headed by Cabinet Secretary P K Sinha to process the recommendations of the 7th Pay Commission which would have bearing on the remuneration of 47 lakh central government employees and 52 lakh pensioners. The Empowered Committee of Secretaries would function as a Screening Committee to process the recommendations with regard to all relevant factors of the Commission in an expeditious detailed and holistic fashion. The government had earlier stated that implementation of new pay scales recommended by the 7th Pay Commission is estimated to put an additional burden of Rs 1.02 lakh crore, or 0.7 percent of GDP, on the exchequer in 2016-17.   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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