7th pay commission: Secretaries group to submit report on revised pay structures by June end

Zee Media Bureau

New Delhi: The Empowered Committee of Secretaries (CoS) headed by Cabinet Secretary P K Sinha is most likely to submit report on the revised pay structures of 7th pay commission recommendations to Finance Minister Arun Jaitley by the end of next month, as per media reports.

The secretaries group is expected to meet on June 11 to finally wrap up its report on the remuneration of government employees.

News reports further state that it will take only a few days afterwards by the finance ministry to implement the higher pay package for central government employees.

The secretaries group has recommended between Rs 2,70,000 and Rs 21,000 hike for the higher and the lower level. This is twenty thousand more in the upper limit prescribed by the 7th CPC and three thousand more in the lower level set by the commission.

It may be recalled that the government had set up a high-powered panel headed by Cabinet Secretary P K Sinha to process the recommendations of the 7th Pay Commission which will have bearing on the remuneration of 47 lakh central government employees and 52 lakh pensioners.