Armed forces to get revised pay from November only
16 October, 2008
The 1.5-million personnel of the armed forces will not be a happy lot this festive season, as their revised pay scales are expected to be paid only in November.
They will take home, salaries under the old pay scales this month, but would get a part of the 40 per cent arrears under the 6th Central Pay Commission (CPC) that would bring some cheer before Eid, being celebrated tomorrow, and Diwali later this month.
The defence personnel's 3.5 million civilian counterparts would go home with lot of plans to celebrate, as they got an increased pay under the new scales this month.
The new CPC scales came into retrospective effect from January 1, 2006.
The government has already announced that it would paid out a part amount of the 40 per cent arrears to the armed forces, following the forces submitting their CPC salary vouchers.
The defence chiefs had accepted the new "discriminatory" pay scales, after prolonged protest by refusing to implement the Cabinet decision, with Defence Minister A K Antony talking to Navy chief Admiral Sureesh Mehta, IAF chief Air Chief Marshal F H Major and Army chief General Deepak Kapoor.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh also set up a three-member ministerial committee headed by External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee, with Antony and Finance Minister P Chidambaram as members, to consider the defence personnel's pay-related grievances.
Source : PTI
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Pay commision is a big joke on Armed forces.The Commitee set up by the govt does not contain even a single leader worth his salt....The present govt lacks leadership and is a conglomerate of managers.So Armed forces should not expect anything positive from them. It's a time when all wings Armed forces must show solidarity with one another. The three Chiefs should tender their resignation to prove to the men they command that in these testing times they are with them. The so called political leadership of our country has benn misled by self seeking bureacracy..
it is painful to see our valient soldiers being maltreated like this.....Equally strange is to see the limited coverage that majority of our visual and print media has given to the issue. It seems some sort of gag orders has been passed or is it that this issue will not contribute positively towards their TRP!!!!gnored
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