The Indian Union Cabinet has given its approval for the appointment of a Screening Committee headed by the Cabinet Secretary and other higher officials from bureaucracy belonging to various departments, to process the various recommendations of the Sixth Pay Commission Report recently submitted by the Justice Srikrishna to the Finance Minister, P.Chidambaram.
The information regarding the appointment of the Screening Committee has been released to the Press by the Central Cabinet Minister, Mr.Kapil Sibal. According to him, the Sixth Pay Commission Report before being submitted for the consideration and approval by the Union Cabinet, the Screening committee headed by the Cabinet Secretary and other higher officials will go through and process various recommendations department wise before sending it to the Union Cabinet for final approval for implementation to the Central Government Employees.
The Screening Committee appointed by the Central Government, however was not given any fixed tenure or timeframe to submit its report.
Responding to the nationwide agitation launched by the Central Government Employees and the strike threat called by the Railway Employees, the Government has taken the above said hasty decision of appointing a Screening committee for processing the Sixth Pay Commission Report before its approval by the Union Cabinet and then implementation to the Central Government Employees..
It may be recalled that the Central Government has already appointed one three member committee headed by three higher officials to look into the grievances of the army personnel as well as the IPS officers, with regard to their grievances as against the Sixth Pay Commission Report.The Indian Forest Service Officers also have got their own grievances in the Sixth Pay Commission Report.Already, the Class III and IV employees have their own grievances in the Sixth Pay Commission Report and they had already launched their nationwide agitation in a phased manner.
The Twelve member high-powered committee under the Cabinet Secretary to screen the commission’s findings and make its own recommendations expeditiously.The committee needs to asses all greivances objectively and sympathetically, bearing in mind that similar probes ordered after the fourth and fifth pay commissions displayed need less prejudice against the demands for justice and lost the confidence of the employees with grievances.
The newly appointed Screening committee may not end all speculations and agitations launched by the employees as against the Sixth Pay Commission Report.It seems that the appointment of the Screening Committee is only to implement the Sixth Pay Commission Report as early as possible in its present form perhaps with some modifications suggested by the 12 member screening committee, which may not be helpful to redress the grievances of the larger sections of the Central Government Employees
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