7th Pay Commission

What is Pay Commission in India?:

Basically pay commission is India is the recommendation by government in which government makes changes in the salary of government employees intermittently, i.e. drop by drop, instead of making steep hike in the salary. It’s a cycle due to which the economy of the country is boosted and government earns more in terms of taxes and expenditure by the common man. This cycle is running in similar way since India got freedom. It was year 1946 when the first pay commission was implemented and since then one-by-one pay commission got implemented and this time its 7^th pay commission.

What does 7^th pay commission has in its bag?:

With the decision taken  on 29^th June, 2016 on 7^th pay commission there is 23.55% hike in the salary and allowance of central government employees which is active from 1^st January, 2016, and after 6-7 months different state governments will also implement the 7^th pay commission to their state employees. Another good thing about this commission is that, government has decided to give arrears of pay and pensioners benefit in the current financial year 2016-2017 itself instead of paying it in the next financial year, as it used to happen in previous pay commissions.

Benefits of 7^th pay commission:

1. Hike in salary: With the 7^th pay commission in action there will be hike in the salary of Rs. 7000 to Rs. 18000 p.m.
2. Hiked lowest level salary to newly recruits: The newly recruited employees will get Rs. 18000 as their base salary which is considered as lowest salary and in actual the salary is bit more than this
3. Class-1 salary to Class-1 fresh recruit: Yes! With 7^th pay commission, freshly recruited Class-1 officer will get Rs. 56100 as their base salary
4. Effect on mass govt. employees: With this recommendation, over 1 crore government employees will get benefit of salary hike out of which 47 lakhs are central government employees and 53 lakhs are pensioners of which 14 lakhs employees and 18 lakhs pensioners are from defense forces.

So what’s your payment after 7^th pay commission? Calculate your salary with the online salary calculator at the following link http://7thpaycommissionnews.in/7th-pay-commission-pay-scale-calculator/

Controversy over 7^th pay commission:

With great news, comes bad news too. Nearly 32 lakhs central government employees are unhappy with the hike in salary and they declared to go a strike from 11^th July, 2016 demanding even more hike in their salary. According to recommendation there will be 15% hike in the basic salary of government employee, but 32 lakhs employees are unhappy with the rate and they demanded for 30% hike in the basic salary. Now, we have to just wait and watch, at what will be the take of government over the strike.

Facts on date of implementation of previous pay commissions:

1. 1^st pay commission: It was established in the year 1946 and submitted its report on May 1947
2. 2^nd pay commission: Implemented on August, 1957 and took 2 years two submit its report
3. 3^rd pay commission: Third pay commission was implemented in the year 1973 but took again three year for the submission of report
4. 4^th pay commission: This was the longest one to take decision, it was suggested in the year 1983 and its report was submitted in three phases and took 4 years
5. 5^th pay commission: Implemented in the year 1994 took one year for the report
6. 6^th pay commission: This was bit fast. It was introduced in the year 2006 which got its report submitted and came into action with the timeframe of 18 months
7. 7^th pay commission: Fastest one up till now. With the time frame of 6 months it is into action