Chapter - 17
17.1 : Minimum Pay:
After considering all relevant factors and based on the
Aykroyd formula the minimum pay in government is recommended to be set at
Rs.18000 per month. (chapter 4.2)
17.2 : New Pay Structure:
The present system of pay bands and grade pay has been
dispensed with and a new pay matrix has been designed. The status of the
employee, hitherto determined by grade pay, will now be determined by the level
in the pay matrix. Separate pay matrices have been drawn up for civilians,
defence personnel and for military nursing service. All existing levels have
been subsumed in the new structure; no new levels have been introduced nor
has any level been dispensed with. (para s 5.1.13 to 5.1.17 )
17. 3 : In the “horizontal range” of the pay
matrix level corresponds to a ‘functional role in the hierarchy’ and as the
employee’s level rises he or she moves from level to level. The “vertical
range” for each level denotes ‘pay progression’ within that level and an
employee would move vertically within each level as per the annual financial
progression of three percent. The starting point of the matrix is the minimum
pay which has been arrived based on 15th ILC norms or the Aykroyd formula.
(para 5.1.21)
17.4 : Fitment:
The starting point for the first level of the matrix has
been set at Rs.18,000. This corresponds to the present starting pay of
Rs.7,000, which is the beginning of PB-1 viz., Rs.5200 + GP 1800, on the date
of implementation of the VI CPC recommendations. Hence the starting point now
proposed is 2.57 times of what was prevailing on 01.01.2006. This fitment
factor of
2.57 is being proposed to be applied uniformly for all
employees. (para 5.1.27)
17.5 : Annual Increment :
The rate of annual increment is being retained at 3
percent. (para 5.1.38)
17.6 : Entry Pay:
The differential of entry pay between new recruits and
promoted employees at various levels has been done away with. (para 5.1.32 and
para 5.1. 33)
17.7 : Modified Assured Career Progression (MACP):
i. This
will continue to be administered at 10, 20 and 30 years as before.
ii. In
the new Pay matrix, the employees will move to the immediate next level in the
hierarchy.
iii. In
the interest of improving performance level, the benchmark for MACP has been
recommended to be enhanced from ‘Good’ to ‘Very Good’
iv. The
Commission has proposed withholding of annual increments in the case of those
employees who are not able to meet the benchmark either for MACP or a regular
promotion within the first 20 years of their service. (paras 5.1.44-5.1.46)
17.21: Cadre Review :
To hasten the process of cadre reviews and reduce the
time taken in inter-ministerial consultations, it is recommended that the
examination of the cadre restructuring proposal should be undertaken at the
department level itself with one member each from DoPT and Department of
Expenditure attending such meetings chaired by the concerned Secretary of the
cadre seeking the review, in the capacity of the cadre controlling officer. The
proposal can thereafter be placed before the Cadre Review Committee chaired by
the Cabinet Secretary where the concerned Secretaries are represented. (para
7.3.17)
17.22 : Common Categories:
To streamline the common cadres residing in different
Departments/Ministries/UTs it is recommended that the government assign
specific ministries to be the nodal ministry for each such category. These
nodal ministries be tasked with drafting model recruitment rules laying down
the educational qualifications, job responsibilities and pay structure for all
such categories. A few examples are the Statistical Cadres and Fire-fighting
staff.(para 7.7.75)
17.23 : Allowances:
The entire structure of allowances have been examined de
novo with the overall aim of transparency, simplification and rationalization,
keeping amongst other things, the proposed pay structure in mind. The
Commission has recommended abolishing 52 allowances altogether. Another 36
allowances have been abolished as separate identities, but sub summed either in
an existing allowance or in newly proposed allowances. Particular emphasis has
been placed on simplifying the process of claiming allowances. Allowances
relating to Risk and Hardship will be governed by the proposed Risk and
Hardship Matrix. (para 8.2.5)
17.24 : Most of the allowances that have been retained
have been given a raise that is commensurate with the rise in DA. Allowances
that are in the nature of a fixed amount but fully indexed to DA have not been
given any raise. Regarding percentage based allowances, since the Basic Pay
will rise as a result of the recommendations of this Commission, the quantum of
percentage based allowances has been rationalized by a factor of 0.8. (para
8.2.3)
17.25 : Risk and Hardship Allowance:
Allowances relating to Risk and Hardship will be governed
by the newly proposed nine-cell Risk and Hardship Matrix, with one extra cell
at the top, viz., RH-Max to include Siachen Allowance. This would be the
ceiling for risk/hardship allowances and there would be no individual RHA with
an amount higher than this allowance. (para 8.10.65 and para 8.10.66)
17.26 : House Rent Allowance:
In line with our general policy of rationalizing the
percentage based allowances by a factor of 0.8, the Commission recommends that
HRA should be rationalized to 24 percent, 16 percent and 8 percent of the Basic
Pay for Class X, Y and Z cities respectively. The Commission also recommends
that the rate of HRA will be revised to 27 percent, 18 percent and 9 percent
when DA crosses 50 percent, and further revised to 30 percent, 20 percent and
10 percent when DA crosses 100 percent. (para 8.7.15)
17.27 : Currently, in the case of those drawing either
NPA or MSP or both, the amounts of NPA/MSP are included with the Basic Pay and
HRA is being paid as a percentage of the total amount. The Commission
recommends that HRA should be calculated as a percentage ofBasic Pay only and
that add-ons like NPA, MSP, etc. should not be includedwhile working out HRA.
(para 8.7.16)
17.28 : The Commission, in the interactions it has had
with the men on the ground at all field locations it has visited, has seen
first-hand that the lack of proper housing compensation is a source of
discontentment among these employees. The service rendered by PBORs of
uniformed services needs to be recognized and Housing provisions of PBORs of
Defence, CAPFs and Indian Coast Guard have been simplified and HRA coverage has
been extended to them. (para 8.7.26)
17.29 : Uniform related allowances have been amalgamated
under a simplified Dress Allowance payable annually. It is thus recommended
that uniform related allowances be subsumed in a single Dress Allowance
(including shoes). (para 8.16.14)
17.30 : Any allowance, not mentioned here (and hence not
reported to the Commission), shall cease to exist immediately. In case there is
any demand or requirement for continuation of an existing allowance which has
not been deliberated upon or covered in this report, it should be re-notified
by the ministry concerned after obtaining due approval of Ministry of Finance
and should be put in the public domain. (para 8.2.5)
17.32 : Night Duty Allowance:
While the present weightage of 10 minutes for every hour
of duty performed between the hours of 22:00 and 06:00 the present prescribed
hourly rate of NDA equal to (BP+DA)/200 may be continued, the amount of NDA
should be worked out separately for each employee and the existing formulation
for giving same rate of NDA for all employees with a particular GP should be
abolished.
(para 8.17.77)
17.33 : OTA should be abolished (except for operational
staff and industrial employees who are governed by statutory provisions). At
the same time it is also recommended that in case the government decides to
continue with OTA for those categories of staff for which it is not a statutory
requirement, then the rates of OTA for such staff should be increased by 50
percent from their current levels. (para 8.17.97)
17.34 : All non-interest bearing Advances have been
abolished. (para 9.1.4)
17.35 : Regarding Motor Car Advance and Motor
Cycle/Scooter/Moped Advance, since quite a few schemes for purchase of vehicles
are available in the market from time to time. The employees should avail of
these schemes and both these advances should be abolished. (para 9.1.7)
17.36 : Regarding other interest-bearing advances, the
following is recommended: (para 9.1.8)
i
|
P C Advance
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Rs.50,000 or
actual price
of PC,
whichever is lower
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May be allowed
maximum five times in the entire service.
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ii
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HBA
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34 times Basic
Pay
OR
Rs.25 lakh
OR
anticipated
price of house, whichever is least
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The
requirement of minimum 10 years of continuous service to avail of HBA should
be reduced to 5 years. If both spouses are government servants, HBA should be
admissible to both separately.
Existing
employees who have already taken Home Loans from banks and other financial
institutions should be allowed to migrate to this scheme
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17.37 : The three different kinds of leave admissible to
civilian/defence employees which are granted for work related
illness/injuries–Hospital Leave, Special Disability Leave and Sick Leave are
being subsumed and rationalized into a composite new Leave named Work Related
Illness and Injury Leave (WRIIL). (para 9.2.36)
1. Full pay and allowances will be
granted to all employees during the entire period of hospitalization on account
of WRIIL.
2. Beyond hospitalization, WRIIL
will be governed as follows:
a. For
Civilian employees, RPF employees and personnel of Police Forces of Union
Territories: Full pay and allowances for the 6 months immediately following
hospitalization and Half Pay only for 12 months beyond that. The Half
Pay period may be commuted to full pay with corresponding number of days of
Half Pay Leave debited from the employee’s leave account.
b. For
Officers of Defence, CAPFs, Indian Coast Guard: Full pay and allowances for the
6 months immediately following hospitalization, for the next 24 months, full
pay only.
c. For
PBORs of Defence, CAPFs, Indian Coast Guard: Full pay and allowances, with no
limit regarding period.
17.38 : The Rates of contribution as also the insurance
coverage under the Central Government Employees General Insurance Scheme have
remained unchanged for long. The following rates of CGEGIS are recommended:
(para 9.3.6)
Level of Employee
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Monthly Deduction(Rs)
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Insurance Amount (Rs.)
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10 and above
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5000
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50 00 000
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6 to 9
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2500
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25 00 000
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1 to 5
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1500
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15 00 000
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17.39 : A simplified process for Cadre Reviews and
revamping of the screening process under Central Staffing Scheme have been
recommended. (para 7.3.41)
17.40 : Health Insurance:
The Commission strongly recommends the introduction of
health insurance scheme for Central Government employees and pensioners. In the
interregnum, for the benefit of pensioners residing outside the CGHS areas, the
Commission recommends that CGHS should empanel those hospitals which are
already empanelled under CS (MA)/ECHS for catering to the medical requirement
of these pensioners on a cashless basis. This would involve strengthening of
administrative capacity of nearest CGHS centres. The Commission
recommends that the remaining 33 postal dispensaries
should be merged with CGHS. The Commission further recommends that all postal
pensioners, irrespective of their participation
in CGHS while in service, should be covered under CGHS
after making requisite subscription. The Commission recommends that possibility
of such a combined network of various medical schemes should be explored
through proper examination. (para 9.5.18)
17.41 : Pension:
The Commission recommends a revised pension formulation
for civil employees including CAPF personnel and Defence personnel, who have
retired before 01.01.2016. This formulation will bring about complete parity of
past pensioners with current retirees:
i. All
the personnel who retired prior to 01.01.2016 (expected date of implementation
of the Seventh CPC recommendations) shall first be fixed in the Pay Matrix
being recommended by this Commission, on the basis of the Pay Band and Grade
Pay at which they retired, at the minimum of the corresponding level in the
matrix. This amount shall be raised, to arrive at the notional pay of the
retiree, by adding the number of increments he/she had earned in that level
while in service, at the rate of three percent. Fifty percent of the total
amount so arrived at shall be the revised pension. In the case of the Defence
personnel, total amount so arrived at shall be inclusive of MSP.
ii. The
second calculation to be carried out is as follows. The pension, as had been
fixed at the time of implementation of the VI CPC
recommendations, shall be multiplied by 2.57 to arrive at an alternate value
for the revised pension.
iii. Pensioners
may be given the option of choosing whichever formulation is beneficial to
them. (para 10.1.67)
17.42 : Since the fixation of pension as per formulation
(i) above may take a little time it is recommended that in the first instance
the revised pension may be calculated as at (ii) above and the same may be paid
as an interim measure. In the event calculation as per (i) above yields a
higher amount the difference may be paid subsequently. (para 10.1.68)
17.43 : The Commission recommends enhancement in the
ceiling of gratuity from the existing Rs.10 lakh to Rs.20 lakh from 01.01.2016.
The Commission further recommends, as has been done in the case of allowances
that are partially indexed to Dearness Allowance, the ceiling on gratuity may
increase by 25 percent whenever DA rises by 50 percent.(para 10.1.37)
17.44 : Lump sum Compensation for Invalidation due to
Disability :
The Commission recommends an increase in the existing
lump sum compensation of ₹9 lakh for 100 percent disability
to ₹20 lakh. However it finds no
justification to recommend broad banding for payment of Ex-gratia award to
service personnel boarded out on account of disability/war injury attributable
to or aggravated by military service. (para 10.2.65)
17.45 : The Commission notes that cadets are not
considered on duty during training and therefore cannot be treated at par with
serving defence forces personnel. The Commission,
however, keeping in viewthe facts relating to
cadets,recommends an increased ex-gratia disability award from the existing ₹6,300 per month to ₹16,200 per
month for 100 percent
disability. (para 10.2.67)
17.46 : Disability Pension:
Keeping in view the tenets of equity, the Commission is
recommending reverting to a slab base system for disability element, instead of
existing percentile based disability pension regime. Distinct rates separately
for officers, JCOs and ORs have been prescribed. (para 10.2.55)
17.47 : Ex-gratia Lump sum Compensation to Next of Kin:
The Commission is recommending the revision of rates of
lump sum compensation for next of kin (NOK) in case of death arising in five
separate circumstances, to be applied uniformly for the defence forces
personnel and civilians. (para 10.2.77)
Circumstances
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Proposed ( Rs.)
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Death occurring due to accidents
in course of performance of duties.
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25 lakh
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Death in the course of performance
of duties attribute to acts of violence by terrorists, anti-social elements
etc.
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25 lakh
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Death occurring in border
skirmishes and action against militants, terrorists, extremists, sea pirates
|
35 lakh
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Death occurring while on duty in
the specified high altitude, inaccessible border posts, on account of natural
disasters, extreme weather conditions
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35 lakh
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Death occurring during enemy
action in war or such war like engagements, which are specifically notified
by Ministry of Defence# and death occurring during evacuation of Indian
Nationals from a war-torn zone in foreign country
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45 lakh
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