New Delhi, March 24: Justice B N Srikrishna on Monday submitted the Sixth Pay Commission%u2019s report to Finance Minister P Chidambaram.
The Commission is reported to have recommended a hike of about 40% in salaries of Central government staff and officers, along with their counterparts in defence and paramilitary forces.
Before the report was submitted, there were indications that a secretary to the government will have a basic salary of Rs 80,000 a month, up from Rs 26,000.
The Cabinet Secretary, senior most officer in the country, is expected to get a basic salary of Rs 90,000, up from Rs 30,000.
The commission was also expected to bring down the number of scales to 18 from the present 33, to facilitate accounting and uniformity across various employees and officers.
The Commission, headed by Justice B N Srikrishna, was constituted in October 2006. It had been given 18 months to submit its report. The panel%u2019s recommendations are likely to benefit an estimated 4.5 million Central government employees.
Central government employees%u2019 remuneration includes a basic salary, a 50% dearness pay merged with the basic and a 47% dearness allowance of the total.
Excluding the arrears that would accrue to the 55 lakh employees, the annual impact of the new wage jump is estimated at Rs 11,000 crore. The new scale will be effective from January 2006, but half of it could be compulsorily put away under the GPF to bring down the instant payout.
