As you know, after rejection of all our demands relating to minimum wage, fitment formula / factor, Annual Increment, Promotion etc. by the 7th Pay Commission including withdrawal of advances and allowances, the NJCA’s call for going on Indefinite Strike from 11.07.2016 was deferred on the circumstances narrated above. All our efforts to convince the Govt. for bringing suitable modifications in the recommendations of the 7th CPC are being delayed in the name of further examination by constituting of several committees, viz. Committee for allowances, Committee for anomalies and Committee for minimum wage and fitment formula. When such committees are yet to be formed / give their report, most unfortunately, the Govt. hurriedly issued Gazette Notification on 29.07.2016 along with CCS (Revised Pay) Rules, 2016 for implementation of the recommendations of the 7th CPC on the basis of Cabinet Decision dated 29.06.2016 and now we are expecting the arrears and pay the revised scale during August, 2016.
Though many employees were of the opinion to keep in abeyance the implementation of the Cabinet decision dated 29th June 2016 regarding 7thCPC recommendations till the High Level Committee submits its report to Govt., the NJCA after detail discussion decided not to demand it since the employees, especially those who are in the verge of retirement may be put to hardship.
You know very well that our learned Comrades throughout the nation are widely analysing the recommendations of the 7th CPC, CCS(Revised) Pay Rules, 2016 etc and finding out many lapses, shortcomings in the said recommendations / Rules which are being published in various websites. All these deficiencies need to be addressed properly which need a united struggle.
Let’s analyze in brief how the CCS (Revised Pay) Rules, 2016 affects the employees with defective Pay Matrix.
a. Loss in Annual Increment – in most of the cases less than 3% :
In addition to the retrograde recommendations, we also find many deficiencies in Cabinet Decision / Resolution, release of CCS (Revised Pay) Rules, 2016. As you know, straightway rejecting the demand of the Staff Side to give 5 % Annual Increment, the 7th CPC recommended 3% Annual Increment vide Para 5.1.38 of its report submitted to the Govt. on 19th November, 2015. But while giving the illustrative examples at Para 5.1.53 of the report, the Annual Increment is seen to be manipulated. In most of the cases, the Pay Matrix has been prefixed at a stage lower than the actual amount arrived after adding the increment of 3% to the Basic Pay. Some levels selected at random and calculated as follows show that the employees are at loss in drawing their annual increments.
| Level | Sl. No. in the Pay Matrix | Basic Pay in the Revised Scale | Actual Pay after adding 3% Annual Increment | Basic Pay prefixed in the Pay Matrix | Amount of Loss to the employee | Actual increment |
| ( % ) | ||||||
| 1 | 12 | 24900 | 25647 | 25600 | 47 | 2.81 |
| 1 | 26 | 37600 | 38728 | 38700 | 28 | 2.92 |
| 3 | 9 | 27600 | 28428 | 28400 | 28 | 2.89 |
| 3 | 16 | 34000 | 35020 | 35000 | 20 | 2.94 |
| 4 | 11 | 34300 | 35329 | 35300 | 29 | 2.91 |
| 4 | 22 | 47500 | 48925 | 48900 | 25 | 2.94 |
| 5 | 10 | 38100 | 39243 | 39200 | 43 | 2.88 |
| 5 | 20 | 51100 | 52633 | 52600 | 33 | 2.93 |
| 6 | 6 | 41100 | 42333 | 42300 | 33 | 2.91 |
| 6 | 9 | 44900 | 46247 | 46200 | 47 | 2.89 |
b. Loss in Promotion :
The above small difference will have also long term impact on the employees’ promotion inviting heavy financial losses. Illustratively, an employee with basic pay of Rs.44900 in the revised scale at level 6 who is entitled to get Rs. 46247 with 3% annual increment is required to be fixed at Rs.46200 at level 7 as per Pay Matrix i.e. with a loss of Rs.47/- Let’s calculate the impact of this small amount of Rs.47/- on his promotion. Had his pay been fixed at Rs.46247, he would have got Rs. 47634 with 3% increment on promotion and his new pay in the next level would have been fixed at Rs.49000/- . But when his pay on promotion will be calculated at Rs.46200/- as per the Pay Matrix, he will get Rs. 47380/- with 3% increment on promotion and his new pay in the next level would be fixed at Rs.47600/-
Thus, for loss of Rs.47/- only in the Annual Increment, the employee will suffer a loss of Rs.1400/- during his / her promotion to the next level and this loss will have cumulative effect on rest period of the service career with financial loss on DA(s) and further promotion(s).
This is just one example. We may find several disparities in the Pay Matrix both for Annual Increment and fixation of pay on promotion.
c. Meagre benefit of Rs. 30/- only on promotion :
In addition, as per Para 13 of CCS (Revised Pay) Rules, 2016, one increment shall be given in the level from which the employees is promoted and he shall be placed at a cell equal to the figure so arrived at in the level of the post to which promoted and if no such cell is available in the level to which promoted, he shall be placed at the next higher cell in that level. Illustratively, an employee at level 6 with basic pay of Rs.49000 in the revised scale after getting 3% increment on promotion is entitled to get Rs.50470 whose pay will be fixed at Rs. 50500 in level 7 as per the Pay Matrix. Similar is the situation when an employee at level 7 with basic pay of Rs.49000 in the revised scale gets 3% increment on promotion is entitled to get Rs.50470 whose pay will also be fixed at Rs. 50500 in level 8 as per the Pay Matrix. The Pay Matrix has been so prefixed that the employees drawing revised pay as above will be entitled for Rs.30/- only after getting the promotion to the next level. Will anyone call it a promotion in the corporate era? This is nothing but a serious betrayal to the C G employees in the name of Pay Revision. There are several other examples in the Pay Matrix.
d. No guideline in CCS (Revised Pay) Rules, 2016 in case of bunching.
As per Para 5.1.36 of the 7th CPC Report although the rationalisation has been done with utmost care to ensure minimum bunching at most levels, however if situation does arise whenever more than two stages are bunched together, one additional increment equal to 3 percent may be given for every two stages bunched, and pay fixed in the subsequent cell in the pay matrix. Similarly as illustrated in Para 5.1.37 of the Report, if two persons drawing pay of Rs.53,000 and Rs.54,590 in the GP 10000 are to be fitted in the new pay matrix, the person drawing pay of Rs.53,000 on multiplication by a factor of 2.57 will expect a pay corresponding to Rs.1,36,210 and the person drawing pay of Rs.54,590 on multiplication by a factor of 2.57 will expect a pay corresponding to Rs.1,40,296. Revised pay of both should ideally be fixed in the first cell of level 15 in the pay of Rs.1,44,200 but to avoid bunching the person drawing pay of Rs.54,590 will get fixed in second cell of level 15 in the pay of Rs.1,48,500. But while instructing fixation of pay in the revised pay structure under Rule 7 of CCS (Revised Pay) Rules, 2016, no guideline has been issued in this regard which may cause difficulty if situation does arise whenever more than two stages are bunched together. Thus, in the absence of clear instructions, the process of fixation of pay and calculation of arrears in the revised pay structure will be will be wrong and the senior employees will be forced to suffer.
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