7th Central Pay Commission – Interim Report Demand

"Presently, we consider the interim report as essential due to the important reasons given below:

 1. The 50% DA merger that was allowed in the 5th Pay Commission is not made available now for Central Government employees after 6th CPC report was implemented.  

 2. Also the inflation rate is the range of 7 to 11 % in last 8 years  is very high.” The actual price rise is more than 200% and DA we got as on 1/1/14 is 100%.  we are not fully compensated by DA , what should have been 100% neutralization, now  it is just  50%  neutralization of price rise. Price rise is happening in every sector not only in food items, the rise is more in housing & service sector.    

The terms and references of the 7th Central Pay Commission was approved by the cabinet on 28.02.2014. In the terms and references document, in paragraph (h), it has been said that if needed an interim report can be recommended.

“h) To recommend the date of effect of its recommendations on all the above.

The Commission will make its recommendations within 18 months of the date of its constitution.  It may consider, if necessary, sending interim reports on any of the matters as and when the recommendations are finalised.″

After the 7th Central Pay Commission was set up, it obtained terms and references from various stakeholders using the 1st phase of interactions. Now, through the 2nd phase of interactions, inputs are received through meetings held in various important cities of India.

The expectation of many Central government employees now is: “is there a possibility of the 7th Central Pay Commission interim report being released?” In the 5th Pay Commission, considering the inflation rates, when the DA reached 50%, it was merged with the basic salary. If 50% DA is merged there will be an increase of 20 to 30% in salary will be there by DA Merger alone. which have immediate effect on salary structure. The basic salary increase should be more than 3.5 times considering 100% DA merging into it and current price rise. 

National Council JCM Staff Side has made a demand to 7th PAY Commission for Interim Relief and Merger of DA with Basic Pay on 21/8/2014 on this issue.    CLICK HERE FOR DETAILS.

However, in the 6th Pay Commission, nothing about the 50% DA merger has been mentioned. Moreover, comparing the DA increase due to inflation in the 5th Pay Commission, the DA that was given during the 6th Pay Commission taking into account the inflation rate is much higher. I have attached a table below to explain this.

5TH CPC DA		6TH CPC DA
01.01.1996	0%	01.01.2006	0%
01.07.1996	4%	01.07.2006	2%
01.01.1997	8%	01.01.2007	6%
01.07.1997	13%	01.07.2007	9%
01.01.1998	16%	01.01.2008	12%
01.07.1998	22%	01.07.2008	16%
01.01.1999	32%	01.01.2009	22%
01.07.1999	37%	01.07.2009	27%
01.01.2000	38%	01.01.2010	35%
01.07.2000	41%	01.07.2010	45%
01.01.2001	43%	01.01.2011	51%
01.07.2001	45%	01.07.2011	58%
01.01.2002	49%	01.01.2012	65%
01.07.2002	52%	01.07.2012	72%
01.01.2003	55%	01.01.2013	80%
01.07.2003	59%	01.07.2013	90%
01.01.2004	61%	01.01.2014	100%
01.03.2004	DA Merger		NO DA Merger
01.07.2004	14%	01.07.2014	107%
Total %  DA	75%	Total %  DA	107%

Presently, we consider the interim report as essential due to the important reasons given below:

1. The 50% DA merger that was allowed in the 5th Pay Commission is not made available now for Central Government employees

2. Also the inflation rate in the 6th Pay Commission is very high.

Due to these factors all the Central Government employees naturally expect if they could get any interim relief through an interim report of the 7th Central Pay Commission w.e.f 1/1/2014. For this we should mobilize and educate our members for more struggles. Which will make Government & 7th CPC  to rethink  and grant us DA merger and interim relief  from 1/1/2014.