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Vol - XV No. 5 SILIGURI MAY, 2008 Editorial SIXTH PAY PANEL FOR CENTRAL GOVERNMENT STAFFER - PAY & PENSION BONANZA FOR ALL The Sixth Central Pay Panel headed by Shri B.N. Srikrishna submitted its report to the Union Government on 24th March, 2008. The panel recommended an overall increase ranging between 23% to 58% in various categories. The increase in salary, without taking into account allowances, is low at lower levels, high at the highest levels, but at the highest levels, working at the Centre
will entail for going significant amounts of salary available at the state level. And within each Pay Band, the higher you go, the lower the effective hike in salary. In a special move towards women employees, the commission has recommended benefits like staggered working hours, special leave provision for child care, enhancing maternity leave to 180 days and better accommodation facilities like working women's hostels. The increase in pension for the retired employees of the Central Government is also substantial. The increase ranges from 20% to 40% with most of the retired employees enjoying a pension packet 40% heftier than the earlier months. Similarly family pension would also go up. The family pension for those retired employees who are 80 years or more shall be more lucrative. Indian Railways is one of the major employer under the Central Government. The Railways have kept aside in its budget proposal Rs. 7000 crs. This amount may be not sufficient to cater to the need of the pay hike for its employees. It was told by Chairman, Parliamentary Committee on Railways that the burden of the Pay Commission recommendations shall push operating ratio of Indian Railways further up. One of the beneficiaries of the hike in the salary and allowances of the Central Govt. staffers shall be the Income Tax Dept. According to the former Chairman of the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) T.N. Pandey, the recommendations would definitely bring more people under tax net and many would also have a higher tax liability. (2) One of the major fallout of the implementation of salary hike for the Central Govt. staff would be on the finances of the State Govt. to provide the benefit of Salary Revision to their staff. According to the Pay Panel higher tax revenues in the coming years and strong financials will help most of the State Govt.s meet the enhanced pay bill as and when they implement Sixth Pay Commission recommendation. It was also held by the Panel that the States which do not reflect comfortable position as far as increased expenditure is concerned may decide on a date of implementation different from centre and stagger the payment of arrears suitably. The response to the recommendations of the Sixth Pay Commission varies amongst the different Trade Unions of the employees and officers. A section held that only a handful of superior officers will corner the benefit while employees at the lower cadre were completely ignored. In a bid to get a minimum entry level salary of Rs. 10,000 certain Trade Unions are planning to meet the Prime Minister and the Union Finance Minister. However, some Trade Unions with commanding membership welcomed the recommendation of the pay panel. With the Central Govt. staffers getting a good Salary Revision the employees and officers in the Banking Industry are keeping their fingers crossed about the likely Salary Revision in the Industry with IBA playing truant. AIRRBOF NEWS LETTER EXCLUSIVE REPORT OF COMMITTEE TO FORMULATE A COMPREHENSIVE HUMAN RESOURCE POLICY FOR RRBs GOVERNMENT OF INDIA OCTOBER 2007 Executive Summary CONTINUED FROM THE EARLIER ISSUE Table 8.4 Staffing Pattern in Controlling Office (CO)
* In CO, OIC will be headed by an officer one scale below GM. Similarly the position of officers could be Scale I or II or III depending upon the need of the RRB. (3) Table No.8.5 Staffing Pattern for Branches (Indicative)
Calculation of Aggregate Staffing Pattern in RRBs The Total staff requirement (ceiling) for a RRB will be as under:-
Note: 1. Total staff in HO & CO excluding inspection officials shall not exceed 8% of total staff in the RRB, minimum being 08 staff. 2. As regards actual deployment of officers & staff in HO, CO and branches, RRB may decide within the overall ceiling with the approval of the Board. 3. For extending business outreach covering Financial Inclusion, recoveries, business development, etc. (for non-core activities as defined by RBI) Business correspondents and outside people engaged for monitoring such business will be contractual engagement and will not form part of staff ceiling prescribed for RRBs. For which RRBs shall have a policy duly approved by their Board. (4) With the above assessment, (except at G) category-wise and grade wise deficit & surplus as on 31st March 2007 have been worked out as under: Table No.8.6 Deficit/Surplus of staff in RRBs based on proposed norms (Position as on 31.3.07)
Based on Provisional data submitted by 82 out of 96 RRBs. Considering that movement of staff in RRB with excess staff not taking place to RRBs with deficit staff, the additional requirement will be 4546 staff entailing an expected additional financial burden of Rs. 68.20 crore on the 62 RRBs as a whole. The requirement and promotional exercise should be phased out and completed by 2009. The assessment of staff in a dynamic situation as on 31st March 2011 will be as follows: Table No.8.7 Deficit / Surplus of Staff as per proposed norm
(5) The ratio of staff in Group A (officers), Group B and Group C (Sub-staff) as per norms as on 31st March 2007 and 31st March 2011 with reference to existing ratio as on 31st March 2007 are furnished below: Table 8.8
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