7th Pay Commission: Tamil Nadu government appoints 5-member committee to study recommendations

7th Pay Commission: Tamil Nadu government appoints 5-member committee to study recommendations (सिफारिशें) The Seventh Pay Commission recommended a 14.27 per cent hike in basic pay. The E Palaniswami government has asked the committee will study pay commission's recommendations and accordingly draft a plan for Tamil Nadu. Nearly eight months after the Narendra

Modi government cleared the recommendations of the Seventh Pay Commission, the Tamil Nadu government has taken the first step towards ensuring state government employees too get a pay hike(बढ़ोतरी) .  The E Palaniswami government had appointed a five-member committee to study the recommendations made by the Seventh Pay Commission and accordingly draft(प्रारूप) a plan for the state. The Seventh Pay Commission recommended a 14.27 per cent hike in basic pay. The state committee will study the implementation of revised salary and pension payouts under the pay commission. The Tamil Nadu government has given the committee time till June 30 to submit its report. Following the submission of the report, those working with the Tamil Nadu government can expect an increase in their pay. Many states have already implemented the recommendations of the Seventh Pay Commission for its government employees.

Uttarakhand, where a new government will be elected on March 11, was among the first to implement the pay commission's recommendations from January 1. States like Haryana have also followed suit, while others like Jammu and Kashmir have promised a massive 23.5 per cent hike in salary to its employees from April 2018. The Central government is expected to soon make an announcement on revision of allowances for its nearly 50 lakh employees under the Seventh Pay Commission.

Following discontentment among employees over certain recommendations made by the pay commission on reducing the number of allowances and subsuming some others, the government tasked a committee under Finance Secretary Ashok Lavasa to review the recommendations.

The Seventh Pay Commission recommended slashing the House Rent Allowance (HRA) for metros from existing 30 per cent of basic pay to 24 per cent of basic pay.

The Committee on Allowances headed by Lavasa was given four months' time from July to present its report which was later extended to February 22, 2017.

According to some reports, the Committee on Allowances has agreed on the 30 per cent of basic pay as HRA for employees, a recommendation which many say the government is likely to approve.

It is widely speculated the Central government will announce the allowances for employees on or around March 15 after Assembly elections in five states are over.

From the start of the next financial year in April, employees are expecting to draw revised allowances with their salary.