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Presented By
S Divya Prabha R Aarthi
INTRODUCTION
A Pay Commission is a panel of members of the Union Cabinet of India for review and revision of the salaries of government employees. It was set up by the Central Government in 1965 and as an administrative committee to determine the salaries of central government employees. Six pay commissions have been set up till date.[
" The commission emphasized on the idea of the living wages and stated that the government which is going to introduce the minimum wages legislation for the workers of the private industry should also follow the same principle for its own employees.
The commission basically recommended that the lowest rung employee should at least get minimum wages
The recommendations of the second pay commission had a financial impact of Rs 396 million.
The chairman of the second pay commission was Jaganath Das.
It stated that the pay structure and the working conditions of the government employee should be crafted in a way so as to ensure efficient functioning of the system by recruiting persons with a minimum qualification.
One of its recommendations was to slash government work force by about 30%. It also recommended to reduce the number of pay scale from 51 to 34 and to not recruit to about 3,50,000 vacant position in the government. None of these recommendations were implemented.
Criticisms of World Bank on fifth pay commission The World Bank criticized the Fifth Pay commission, stating that the Fifth Pay Commission as the 'single largest adverse shock' to the public finance of the nation. It also said that the number of employees of the government was 'not unduly' large, but there was a 'pronounced imbalance' in the skills. It noted that about 93% of the employees were of 3rd or 4th grade qualification
The employees had threatened to go on a nationwide strike if the government failed to hike their salaries
Reasons for the demand of hikes include rising inflation and rising pay in the private sector due to the forces of Globalization The Class 1 officers in India are grossly underpaid with an IAS officer with 25 years of work experience earning just Rs.55,000 as his take home pay.
constitute a new Pay commission for trial court judges The chief justice and other supreme court and high court judges got a threefold salary hike in the sixth pay commission however the trial court judges were paid low and a bench comprising Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan and Justices P Sathasivam and J M Panchal constituted a new pay commission for the trial court judges headed by retired Madras High Court judge by All India Judges Association, which stated that the first judicial commission which was headed by Justice Jagannatha Shetty had said that there should be an upward revision of salaries of lower court judges in proportion to the hike to the judges of high court and Supreme Court.
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