Appoint 7th Pay Commission: NMC to PM

Excelsior Correspondent

NMC activists raising slogans during convention at Jammu on Sunday. -Excelsior/Rakesh

JAMMU, June 9: National Mazdoor Conference (NMC) today urged the Prime Minister to appoint the 7th Pay Commission at the next Cabinet Meeting as employees and pensioners will be entitled for Pay Commission with effect from January 1, 2016.
This was stated by Subash Shastri, president, NMC during one day convention here today.
He said that the except 6th Pay Commission all earlier pay commissions were constituted in the third year of every decade. In other words earlier Pay Commissions except 6th Pay Commission were formed well before its implementation become due.
“A notification for constitution of the 7th Pay Commission is the need of the hour for employees and pensioners, both in Central and State Governments”, Shastri added.
“50 per cent of DA should be forthwith merged into basic pay and pension,” he said, adding 20 per cent interim relief should be sanctioned as early as possible in favour of Central and State Government employees and pensioners.
Shastri also insisted on time bound implementation of policy for regularization of daily wagers who have completed seven years of service in Mach 2012, adding that monthly emoluments of daily wagers should be raised to Rs 10,000 per month.
He also demanded enhancement of medical allowance from Rs 300 to Rs 1,000 per month, release of salary of motivators working in the IWDP Phase II beside their regularization and removal of all pay anomalies in SRO 93.
Among other who spoke were Rajan Babu Khajuria, Sham Lal Sharma, Raghu Pal, Yog Raj, Surinder Kumar, Sukhdev Singh, Bhupinder Singh, Mohan Lal Sharma, Barkat Ram, Subash Sharma, Karan Singh, etc.