Pay hike for Indian armed forces: Modi government notifies pending salary hike for 14 lakh armed forces
New Delhi: Heeding to a noteworthy request of armed forces personnel, the legislature has chosen to proceed with a prior arrangement of disbursing disability pension and not to proceed with another administration prescribed by the seventh pay commission.
The armed forces have been squeezing for returning to the rate based administration for inability annuity and were emphatically contradicted to the section based framework brought about by the seventh central pay commission (CPC).
The choices was taken at a meeting of the Union Cabinet managed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The legislature has likewise concurred on a fundamental level to address three noteworthy grievances of the armed forces identifying with their compensation structure including giving pay insurance to those getting advancement from the rank of brigadiers.
The present framework has certain abnormalities and some of those elevated to higher positions lose on the military service pay.
After a meeting of the Union Cabinet, Defense Minister Arun Jaitley additionally guaranteed that the legislature was tending to the request of augmenting pay network from 24 years to 40 years and doing legitimization of pay Lt Colonels and Colonels.
The government likewise affirmed change in suggestions of the seventh CPC identifying with the strategy for amendment of benefits of pre-2016 retired people and family beneficiaries in view of proposals of an abnormal state board.
The choice will profit more than 55 lakh pre-2016 common and protection retired people and family beneficiaries. The adjusted definition will involve an extra advantage to the beneficiaries and an extra consumption of roughly Rs 5,031 crore for 2016-17.
The advantage of the proposed adjustments will be accessible with impact from January 1, 2016, the date of execution of seventh CPC proposals.
With the expansion endorsed by the Cabinet, the yearly benefits charge alone of the focal government is probably going to be Rs 1,76,071 crore, the legislature said.
"The Cabinet likewise affirmed the maintenance of rate based administration of handicap benefits executed post 6th CPC which the seventh CPC had prescribed to be supplanted by a section based framework," the legislature said in an announcement.
It said choice will profit existing and future beneficiaries of the military and would involve an extra use of roughly Rs 130 crore for every annum.
The legislature was under assault from the resistance parties and additionally the military foundation over piece based framework taking after which the matter was alluded to the National Anomaly Committee by the Ministry of Defence .
The military felt the new framework would bring about lessening in the measure of handicap benefits for existing and additionally future retirees contrasted with rate based incapacity annuity.
The military staff was vexed as non-military personnel retired people were to be paid benefits as indicated by the before rate framework.
Alluding to an amendment of benefits of pre 2016 retired people, the administration said the adjustments were gotten to give the more helpful alternative to the beneficiaries.
The Cabinet has acknowledged the proposals of the Committee, which has recommended amendment of annuity in view of data contained in the Pension Payment Order (PPO) issued to each retired person, it said.
The reconsidered technique of obsession of notional pay is more logical, judicious and implementable in every one of the cases, it said.