The Empowered Committee
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Cabinet constitutes a panel to process the Sixth Pay Panel report
The Union Cabinet discussed the pay panel report that recommended an average 40 per cent high in pay packets and decided to set up a committee of secretaries.
Considered as 'inadequate' by employees associations, the Panel had suggested a pay packet of Rs 90,000 for the top bureaucrat and Rs 80,000 for secretaries in the recommendations that cost the exchequer over Rs 12,000 crore.
The Empowered Committee of Secretaries will be headed by Cabinet Secretary K M Chandrasekhar.
Although no time frame had been proposed for the committee to submit its report to the union cabinet, it is expected that the committee would "do its job in the shortest possible time.’’
The committee would "mainly function as a screening committee for recommendations." an official release said.
The Government has already constituted a committee headed by Finance Secretary D. Subbarao to look into the grievances of armed forces and IPS officers.
Service chiefs are understood to have proposed more salaries and increased allowances for soldiers and pointed out major anomalies in the salary structure of both officers and personnel.
Other sections of employees have also opposed the recommendations, saying the pay hike suggested was inadequate and would increase inequality.
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