7th Pay Commission: Good news for central government employees as Centre sets up committee to address pay related anomalies

Zee Media Bureau

New Delhi: Central government has finally set up a committee to look into various pay related anomalies arising out of the implementation of the Seventh Central Pay Commission's recommendations under immense pressure from the employees unions.

The committees is expected to examine individual, post and cadre-specific anomalies arising out of implementation of the recommendations of 7th Central Pay Commission.

“Anomalies committees will be set up by Department of Personnel and Training to examine individual, post-specific and cadre-specific anomalies arising out of implementation of the recommendations of the Commission,” the Finance Ministry had said in an order notifying implementation of the pay panel’s recommendations in July.

The committee will have members from the government as well as from the National Council (Joint Consultative Machinery) consisting of representatives of the official side and the staff side.

The panel will be headed by  Secretary, Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) and will have around 22 members,  

The members from the government side will have Member (Staff) Railway Board, secretaries of Department of Telecommunications and Department of Posts, Financial Adviser(Defence Ministry) two joint secretaries from DoPT and Joint Secretary (Personnel) in Finance Ministry will also be part of the panel. A Deputy Secretary of the DoPT will be Member-Secretary of the panel. There will be 13 members from the staff side.