updates on revised allowance structure for Central government employees are expected to be announced in the coming week.

Date : 19.5.2017

7th Pay Commission report: Updates on revised allowance may be announced next week

The Empowered Committee of Secretaries is likely to meet soon before presenting the report to the Union Cabinet.

The decision to set up the Committee was taken in view of significant changes recommended by the 7th CPC in the allowances structure. (Image: PTI)

According to various media reports, updates on revised allowance structure for Central government employees are expected to be announced in the coming week. The Empowered Committee of Secretaries is likely to meet soon before presenting the report to the Union Cabinet.

The Committee on Allowances – headed by Ashok Lavasa, Finance Secretary and Secretary (Expenditure) and constituted by the Ministry of Finance to examine the 7th CPC recommendations on allowances – had submitted its report to Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in the last week of April. The decision to set up the Committee was taken in view of significant changes recommended by the 7th CPC in the allowances structure and a large number of representations received in this regard from various Staff Associations as well as the apprehensions conveyed by various ministries / departments. The 7th CPC had recommended that of a total of 196 allowances, 52 be abolished altogether and 36 be abolished as separate identities by subsuming them in another allowance.

The Committee took note of all the representations received from various stakeholders on the 7th CPC recommendations on allowances. Representations and demands for modifications were received in respect of 79 allowances which have been examined in detail by the Committee. In doing so, the Committee interacted with all the members of the Standing Committee of National Council (Staff Side), Joint Consultative Machinery (JCM) as well the representatives of various staff associations of railways, postal employees, doctors, nurses, and Department of atomic Energy. It also interacted with the representatives of the Defence Forces, DGs of Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) as also senior officers from IB and SPG to understand the viewpoint of their personnel.