NEW DELHI: First class travel on international airlines has become a reality for top officials with the government issuing orders to substantially improve all travel rules in line with the Sixth Pay Commission's recommendations.
The high-end journeys can be undertaken by cabinet secretary and secretaries while officials a notch below can enjoy business class and all others can travel economy class.
For domestic official tours, all officers with a grade pay of Rs 10,000 or above can travel in business class or by AC first in trains. The entitlements of other officials have been revised from September 1 with the minimum being AC-III for those drawing Rs 4,200 or less as grade pay. The government has taken a strong view on personal use of "mileage points" of frequent-flier officials and ordered that these points would accrue to the department concerned for concessional travel by others on official tours.
"Any usage of these mileage points for purposes of private travel by an officer will attract departmental action. This is to ensure that the benefits out of official travel, which is funded by the government, should accrue to the government," the order says. To ensure that tours are taken judiciously, the government has clarified that no additional funds would be provided on account of revision in entitlements. The departments are expected to restrict official tours only to "absolutely essential" requirement.
Journeys undertaken in buses and taxis, including air-conditioned ones, will be reimbursed on the basis of actual expenses for officers in grade pay up to Rs 4,200.
Official tours in own cars or taxis can be reimbursed at the rate of Rs 16 per km. It would be Rs 8 per km for auto-rickshaws and scooters. The highest daily expense for hotel stay would be Rs 5,000 now with additional food bills up to Rs 500. The limit goes down as per grade pay to a minimum daily entitlement of Rs 300.
A composite transfer grant equal to one month's basic pay can be taken for change of stations beyond 20 km. The weight limit for shifting household goods has been revised upwards.
If an officer's spouse is working, he or she can claim 50% of the transfer grant if moving between same stations within six months but after 60 days of the spouse's transfer.
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Thursday, September 18, 2008
6TH PAY COMMISSION --- MAIN ITEMS
After the recommendations of the Sixth Pay Commission, here is the brief list of Perks, Arrears, Increments & Key Points of the Sixth Pay Commission, as listed in the official report of the Sixth Pay Commission. How much of these perks, arrears and Increments are you elgible to receive depends upon your Pay Band and the salary. You may also check the Online Calculators for Sixth Pay Commission Salary Calculations.
Sixth Commission Government Salary Calculators
State Wise Salary Hike details are covered in the links of the article: State Wise Salary Hike Details of Sixth Pay Commission. Please refer to the article and click on your respective state wise link for news and other information.
Link To: Revised Pay Scales, New Pay Bands Finalized by the Government
Union Government notified Sixth Pay Commission Friday. Following are some key points after notification.
Government has accepted most of the points but has rejected three recommendations and has put some other contentious issues to be taken up in future.
Pay Band and Grade pay:
* Grade Pay up to PB2 recommended by 6CPC accepted as such.
* Revised Grade pay from PB3 and above. Check New pay band and Grade Pay
* The basic pay drawn as on 1.1.2006 on the existing Fifth CPC pay scales will be multiplied by a factor of 1.86 and then rounded off to next multiple of 10. This will be the pay in the revised running Pay Band. Grade Pay, as approved by the Government, corresponding to the pre-revised pay scale, will then be added to the Pay in the revised Pay Band. The total of pay in the Pay Band and grade pay will be the revised Basic Pay as on 1.1.2006.
* Rate of annual increments will be 3% and the rate of variable increment for high achievers in PB-3 will be 4%.
* There will be a uniform date of annual increment, viz. 1st July of every year. Employees completing 6 months and above in the revised pay structure as on 1st of July will be eligible to be granted the increment. The first increment after fixation of pay on 1.1.2006 in the revised pay structure will be granted on 1.7.2006 for those employees for whom the date of next increment was between 1st July, 2006 to 1st Jan 2007.
DA and other Allowances
* AICPI (IW) with base 2001 may, henceforth, be used for the purpose of calculating DA till it gets revised. The base using the 2001 series works out to be 115.76. Based on this index the revised DA as on Jan-06, July-06, Jan-07, July-07, Jan-08 and July-08 are estimated to be 0%, 3%, 6%, 9%, 12%, and 16% respectively (based on the calculation made as per index - Exact DA rates are yet to be confirmed by the Government).
* “Campus” restriction for grant of Transport Allowance will be removed. Consequently, employees living in campuses will also be eligible for Transport Allowance. Further, Transport Allowance for the employees at the lowest levels will be increased to Rs.600 (from Rs.400) in A-1/A class cities and Rs.400 (from Rs.300) in other towns.
* New TA - Employees drawing grade pay of Rs. 5400 and above will be eligible to receive TA of Rs.3200 and DA thereon (A1/A class cites) and Rs.1600 and DA thereon (other places. Similarly Employees drawing grade pay of Rs.4200 to Rs.4800 will be eligible to receive TA of Rs. Rs.1600 and DA thereon (A1/A class cites) and Rs.800 and DA thereon (other places). Employees drawing grade pay of below Rs. 4200 will be eligible to receive TA of Rs. 600 and DA thereon (A1/A class cites) and Rs.400 and DA thereon (other places).
* City Compensatory Allowance abolished.
* Employess living in X (Earlier classified as A-1), Y (Earlier classified as A, B-1 & B-2), and Z (Earlier classified as C and Unclassified) will be eligible for HRA of 30%, 20% and 10% (on Fixed Pay and Grade Pay) respectively.
* Children Education Allowance and Reimbursement of Tuition Fee are merged and reimbursement of Children Education allowance will be paid upto the maximum of Rs.1000 per child per month subject to a maximum of 2 children. Hostel subsidy will be reimbursed upto the maximum limit of Rs.3000 per month per child. The limits would be automatically raised by 25% every time the Dearness Allowance on the revised pay bands goes up by 50%.
* Cycle Allowance, Washing Allowance, Cash Handling Allowance, Special Allowance, Night Duty Allowance and Split Duty Allowance have been doubled. Similarly, rates of allowances specific to different Ministries/Departments/Organisations not covered in this Report will also be doubled. The rates of these allowances will be increased by 25% every time the Dearness Allowance payable on revised pay scales goes up by 50%.
* All provisions concerning travel under LTC are to be retained except frequency of travel in home town concession (up to three times during the first two blocks of 4 years after joining the service).
* The revised allowances, other than dearness allowance, will be effective from 1st day of September, 2008.
ACP (Assured Career Progression):
* Three upgradations will be granted under Assured Career Progression (ACP) Scheme at 10, 20 and 30 years as per the modified ACP Scheme recommended by the Commission. ACP Scheme will also be applicable to Group A employees.
* Financial upgradation through ACP will be available whenever a person has spent 10 years continuously in the same grade.
* Benefit of pay fixation available at the time of normal promotion shall be allowed at the time of financial upgradations under the scheme. Thus, an increase of 3% of pay and grade pay shall be available as financial upgradation under the scheme.
Other Points accepted by the Government:
* The Commission’s recommendation regarding payment of arrears has been modified to the extent that the arrears will be paid in cash in two instalments – first instalment of 40% during the current financial year (2008-09) and the remaining 60% in the next financial year (2009-10).
* The Government has approved setting up of Anomalies Committees to examine individual, post-specific and cadre-specific anomalies. The Anomalies Committees should endeavour to complete their work in one year.
Recommendations not accepted by the Government in Sixth Pay Commission:
* Liberal ‘severance package’ for those employees who want to leave service without pension with more than 15, but less than 20 years of service.
* Recommendation relating to Holiday Policy that there should only be three closed holidays for Government employees.
* Flexi-hours for women employees and flexi-weeks for employees with disabilities.
Recommendations of Sixth CPC which will be examined separately :
* Recommendation related to Bonus and Over Time Allowance.
* Recommendation related to General Provident Fund for Central Government employees and Central Government Employees Group Insurance Scheme.
* Introduction of Health Insurance Scheme for Central Government employees and pensioners.
Sixth Commission Government Salary Calculators
State Wise Salary Hike details are covered in the links of the article: State Wise Salary Hike Details of Sixth Pay Commission. Please refer to the article and click on your respective state wise link for news and other information.
Link To: Revised Pay Scales, New Pay Bands Finalized by the Government
Union Government notified Sixth Pay Commission Friday. Following are some key points after notification.
Government has accepted most of the points but has rejected three recommendations and has put some other contentious issues to be taken up in future.
Pay Band and Grade pay:
* Grade Pay up to PB2 recommended by 6CPC accepted as such.
* Revised Grade pay from PB3 and above. Check New pay band and Grade Pay
* The basic pay drawn as on 1.1.2006 on the existing Fifth CPC pay scales will be multiplied by a factor of 1.86 and then rounded off to next multiple of 10. This will be the pay in the revised running Pay Band. Grade Pay, as approved by the Government, corresponding to the pre-revised pay scale, will then be added to the Pay in the revised Pay Band. The total of pay in the Pay Band and grade pay will be the revised Basic Pay as on 1.1.2006.
* Rate of annual increments will be 3% and the rate of variable increment for high achievers in PB-3 will be 4%.
* There will be a uniform date of annual increment, viz. 1st July of every year. Employees completing 6 months and above in the revised pay structure as on 1st of July will be eligible to be granted the increment. The first increment after fixation of pay on 1.1.2006 in the revised pay structure will be granted on 1.7.2006 for those employees for whom the date of next increment was between 1st July, 2006 to 1st Jan 2007.
DA and other Allowances
* AICPI (IW) with base 2001 may, henceforth, be used for the purpose of calculating DA till it gets revised. The base using the 2001 series works out to be 115.76. Based on this index the revised DA as on Jan-06, July-06, Jan-07, July-07, Jan-08 and July-08 are estimated to be 0%, 3%, 6%, 9%, 12%, and 16% respectively (based on the calculation made as per index - Exact DA rates are yet to be confirmed by the Government).
* “Campus” restriction for grant of Transport Allowance will be removed. Consequently, employees living in campuses will also be eligible for Transport Allowance. Further, Transport Allowance for the employees at the lowest levels will be increased to Rs.600 (from Rs.400) in A-1/A class cities and Rs.400 (from Rs.300) in other towns.
* New TA - Employees drawing grade pay of Rs. 5400 and above will be eligible to receive TA of Rs.3200 and DA thereon (A1/A class cites) and Rs.1600 and DA thereon (other places. Similarly Employees drawing grade pay of Rs.4200 to Rs.4800 will be eligible to receive TA of Rs. Rs.1600 and DA thereon (A1/A class cites) and Rs.800 and DA thereon (other places). Employees drawing grade pay of below Rs. 4200 will be eligible to receive TA of Rs. 600 and DA thereon (A1/A class cites) and Rs.400 and DA thereon (other places).
* City Compensatory Allowance abolished.
* Employess living in X (Earlier classified as A-1), Y (Earlier classified as A, B-1 & B-2), and Z (Earlier classified as C and Unclassified) will be eligible for HRA of 30%, 20% and 10% (on Fixed Pay and Grade Pay) respectively.
* Children Education Allowance and Reimbursement of Tuition Fee are merged and reimbursement of Children Education allowance will be paid upto the maximum of Rs.1000 per child per month subject to a maximum of 2 children. Hostel subsidy will be reimbursed upto the maximum limit of Rs.3000 per month per child. The limits would be automatically raised by 25% every time the Dearness Allowance on the revised pay bands goes up by 50%.
* Cycle Allowance, Washing Allowance, Cash Handling Allowance, Special Allowance, Night Duty Allowance and Split Duty Allowance have been doubled. Similarly, rates of allowances specific to different Ministries/Departments/Organisations not covered in this Report will also be doubled. The rates of these allowances will be increased by 25% every time the Dearness Allowance payable on revised pay scales goes up by 50%.
* All provisions concerning travel under LTC are to be retained except frequency of travel in home town concession (up to three times during the first two blocks of 4 years after joining the service).
* The revised allowances, other than dearness allowance, will be effective from 1st day of September, 2008.
ACP (Assured Career Progression):
* Three upgradations will be granted under Assured Career Progression (ACP) Scheme at 10, 20 and 30 years as per the modified ACP Scheme recommended by the Commission. ACP Scheme will also be applicable to Group A employees.
* Financial upgradation through ACP will be available whenever a person has spent 10 years continuously in the same grade.
* Benefit of pay fixation available at the time of normal promotion shall be allowed at the time of financial upgradations under the scheme. Thus, an increase of 3% of pay and grade pay shall be available as financial upgradation under the scheme.
Other Points accepted by the Government:
* The Commission’s recommendation regarding payment of arrears has been modified to the extent that the arrears will be paid in cash in two instalments – first instalment of 40% during the current financial year (2008-09) and the remaining 60% in the next financial year (2009-10).
* The Government has approved setting up of Anomalies Committees to examine individual, post-specific and cadre-specific anomalies. The Anomalies Committees should endeavour to complete their work in one year.
Recommendations not accepted by the Government in Sixth Pay Commission:
* Liberal ‘severance package’ for those employees who want to leave service without pension with more than 15, but less than 20 years of service.
* Recommendation relating to Holiday Policy that there should only be three closed holidays for Government employees.
* Flexi-hours for women employees and flexi-weeks for employees with disabilities.
Recommendations of Sixth CPC which will be examined separately :
* Recommendation related to Bonus and Over Time Allowance.
* Recommendation related to General Provident Fund for Central Government employees and Central Government Employees Group Insurance Scheme.
* Introduction of Health Insurance Scheme for Central Government employees and pensioners.
Sunday, September 14, 2008
OPTION FOR --- PAY FIXATION
When you have to fix your pay in the case of ACP/Promotion after 1.1.2006?
Service - 6pc matters
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New Pay Fixation consequent on implementation of Sixth Pay Commission, is the raring topic among all Central Government Employees. The four important factors that are involved in the New Pay Fixation are our basic pay as on 1.1.2006, the pre-revised pay scale where we are placed now, date of our pre-revised increment and the date of New Pay fixation. We could see that any changes in these four factors will have an impact on our new pay as on Sept 2008 and the pay arrears for the period between 1.1.2006 to 31.8.08. Obviously, we have no option to change the first three factors, i.e. our basic pay as on 1.1.2006, pre-revised pay scale, and date of pre-revised increment. The other factor is the date of New Pay Fixation.
Those who have not got their promotion or ACP after 1.1.2006 or have no change in their pay scale after 1.1.2006, can either opt for pay fixation on 1.1.2006 or on the date of their pre-revised increment. Check New Pay Fixation on 1.1.2006 or on the date of increment - A Comparison for an in depth analysis on this aspect.
For those who have got ACP or promotion after 1.1.2006, the other option is they can also opt for fixing the new pay on the date of their ACP/Promotion if it is beneficial to them. We have now made a comparison of illustrative new pay fixation done for 12 employees. Let us assume that these employees have got their ACP/Promotion on the date of their pre-revised increment. The following table contains two sets of the their New pay as on Sept -2008 and Pay arrears, the one being the pay fixed on 1.1.2006 and the other being the pay fixed on the date of their ACP/Promotion.
Employee Old Pay details
Fixation on 1.1.2006 irrespective of date of promotion/ACP Fixation on the date of ACP/Promotion
Emp B.P on 1.1.2006 and Pay scale New Pay Scale on ACP /Promotion ACP /Promotion Year & Month Sept-08 Fixed Pay Arrears Sept-08 Fixed Pay Arrears
X1 7500 (6500-200-10500) HRA 30%, TA - Rs.1600 8000-275-13500 Feb 06 32638 160809 32586 158365
X2 April 06 32638 161869 32586 149935
X3 June 06 33347 176019 32586 141505
X4 Aug 06 32613 163498 33532 150126
Aug 07 32592 150006 35586 99531
Y1 12275 (10650-15850) HRA 30%, TA - Rs.3200 12000-375-16500 Feb 06 53684 263073 53386 254667
Y2 April 06 53684 263873 53386 240757
Y3 June 06 54841 286029 53386 226847
Y4 Aug 06 53638 264609 54904 240317
Aug 07 53604 242846 57999 158672
Z1 5000 (4000-100-6000)HRA 30%, TA - Rs.600 4500-125-7000 Feb 06 20561 99578 20382 95162
Z2 April 06 20561 99600 20382 89866
Z3 June 06 21042 108480 20382 84570
Z4 Aug 06 20542 99284 20987 90175
Aug 07 20539 90970 22231 60220
Service - 6pc matters
E-mail Print PDF
New Pay Fixation consequent on implementation of Sixth Pay Commission, is the raring topic among all Central Government Employees. The four important factors that are involved in the New Pay Fixation are our basic pay as on 1.1.2006, the pre-revised pay scale where we are placed now, date of our pre-revised increment and the date of New Pay fixation. We could see that any changes in these four factors will have an impact on our new pay as on Sept 2008 and the pay arrears for the period between 1.1.2006 to 31.8.08. Obviously, we have no option to change the first three factors, i.e. our basic pay as on 1.1.2006, pre-revised pay scale, and date of pre-revised increment. The other factor is the date of New Pay Fixation.
Those who have not got their promotion or ACP after 1.1.2006 or have no change in their pay scale after 1.1.2006, can either opt for pay fixation on 1.1.2006 or on the date of their pre-revised increment. Check New Pay Fixation on 1.1.2006 or on the date of increment - A Comparison for an in depth analysis on this aspect.
For those who have got ACP or promotion after 1.1.2006, the other option is they can also opt for fixing the new pay on the date of their ACP/Promotion if it is beneficial to them. We have now made a comparison of illustrative new pay fixation done for 12 employees. Let us assume that these employees have got their ACP/Promotion on the date of their pre-revised increment. The following table contains two sets of the their New pay as on Sept -2008 and Pay arrears, the one being the pay fixed on 1.1.2006 and the other being the pay fixed on the date of their ACP/Promotion.
Employee Old Pay details
Fixation on 1.1.2006 irrespective of date of promotion/ACP Fixation on the date of ACP/Promotion
Emp B.P on 1.1.2006 and Pay scale New Pay Scale on ACP /Promotion ACP /Promotion Year & Month Sept-08 Fixed Pay Arrears Sept-08 Fixed Pay Arrears
X1 7500 (6500-200-10500) HRA 30%, TA - Rs.1600 8000-275-13500 Feb 06 32638 160809 32586 158365
X2 April 06 32638 161869 32586 149935
X3 June 06 33347 176019 32586 141505
X4 Aug 06 32613 163498 33532 150126
Aug 07 32592 150006 35586 99531
Y1 12275 (10650-15850) HRA 30%, TA - Rs.3200 12000-375-16500 Feb 06 53684 263073 53386 254667
Y2 April 06 53684 263873 53386 240757
Y3 June 06 54841 286029 53386 226847
Y4 Aug 06 53638 264609 54904 240317
Aug 07 53604 242846 57999 158672
Z1 5000 (4000-100-6000)HRA 30%, TA - Rs.600 4500-125-7000 Feb 06 20561 99578 20382 95162
Z2 April 06 20561 99600 20382 89866
Z3 June 06 21042 108480 20382 84570
Z4 Aug 06 20542 99284 20987 90175
Aug 07 20539 90970 22231 60220
Saturday, September 13, 2008
6TH PAY COMMISSION -- ALLOWANCES
The government has increased the transport allowance. In Group A+/A category cities transport allowance for lowest employee will be Rs 600 while for other cities it will be Rs 400.
The central government employees were fearful that the government may accept reducing gazetted holidays to just three as suggested by the pay panel. Luckily for the central government employees the central government has turned down the proposal.
It is probably because of the anticipated backlash from 5.5 central government employees that government turned downed the proposal.
But government has significantly improved over the original suggestions of the sixth pay panel.
The final government notification says that rate of annual increment will be 3 percent instead of 2.5% as originally recommended by the pay commission.
The rate of variable increment for high achievers in PB-3 will be 4% instead of 3.5% recommended by the commission.
The government has removed campus restriction for grant of transport allowance. Consequently employees living in campuses will also be eligible for transport allowance. Further transport allowance for the employees at the lowest levels will be increased to Rs 600 from existing Rs 400 in A-1/A class cities and Rs 400 from existing Rs 300 in other towns.
The central government employees were fearful that the government may accept reducing gazetted holidays to just three as suggested by the pay panel. Luckily for the central government employees the central government has turned down the proposal.
It is probably because of the anticipated backlash from 5.5 central government employees that government turned downed the proposal.
But government has significantly improved over the original suggestions of the sixth pay panel.
The final government notification says that rate of annual increment will be 3 percent instead of 2.5% as originally recommended by the pay commission.
The rate of variable increment for high achievers in PB-3 will be 4% instead of 3.5% recommended by the commission.
The government has removed campus restriction for grant of transport allowance. Consequently employees living in campuses will also be eligible for transport allowance. Further transport allowance for the employees at the lowest levels will be increased to Rs 600 from existing Rs 400 in A-1/A class cities and Rs 400 from existing Rs 300 in other towns.
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