The assurance was given by the Cabinet Secretary P K Sinha
The assurance was given by the Cabinet Secretary P K Sinha after a meeting with the National Joint Council of Action (NJCA), which is a centralised union of several central government employees unions
The NJCA, which has been leading the negotiations relating to the 7th Pay Commission met with Cabinet Secretary P K Sinha and has told him that the higher allowances must be given with retrospective effect from January 1, 2016.
In late June, after implementing the 7th Pay Commission proposals on salary and pension, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley had announced the ‘Committee on Allowances’, headed by Finance Secretary Ashok Lavasa to examine the suggestions on allowances. It had time till October to give the report but this got delayed.
The decision on allowances was postponed because the 7th Pay Commission wanted a number of these to be abolished or subsumed. Employee unions were opposed.
The ‘Committee on Allowances’ submitted its report to finance minister Arun Jaitley on April 27.
However, the Committee’s report on higher allowances under the 7th Pay Commission haven’t made public.
The report on allowances is now examined by finance ministry. After that, the finance minister Arun Jaitley will soon set up the Empowered Committee of Secretaries (E-CoS) to examine the report of Committee on Allowances and following the final report of the empowered committee of secretaries, it will be placed before the Cabinet.
The central government employees now get all allowances except dearness allowance, according to the 6th Pay Commission recommendations until issuing of higher allowances notification.
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