7CPC faces challenges in Pay Gap

The 7CPC will have to consider the reduction in the disparity of pay ratio between its highest and lowest paid employees, because it determines the socialism view of the government and the higher number of central government employees are in the minimum pay slabs.

This report, appeared in GConnect.in is quite interesting. But this doesnot seem to be right. Is it that the 7CPC is thinking of the problem now ? No way !

I am sure they would have considered this issue on Day 1 of their work. And they must have worked around with a suitable method, to either reduce the ratio nominally or retain the ratio of 12 as such. 

This report  I feel, is some media person's guess work. If he wants more  points to write such reports, he can find many in the earlier posts in this Blog.

The highlights of the report are :

The 7CPC faces serious challenge in submitting its recommendations to the government before December 31st, for hiking salaries and allowances for central government employees as the employees’ unions question the controversial pay gap between top and bottom level government officials.

The 6CPC made a wide gap in pay between the top bureaucrats and the government employees at the bottom.

The 1CPC had recommended pay of the top bureaucrats 41 times higher than the government employees at the bottom level. ( Ratio of pay between lowest earning employees and top bureaucrats was 1:41 in 1947)

Subsequent pay commissions reduced the ratio of pay between lowest earning employees and top bureaucrats from 1:41 in 1947 to about 1:12 in 2006. 

Accordingly, the 7CPC will have to consider the reduction in the disparity of pay ratio between its highest and lowest paid employees, because it determines the socialism view of the government and the higher number of central government employees are in the minimum pay slabs.

The bureaucrats with high pay are generally happier, healthier and are better placed to lead a comfortable life compared to the lower earning employees.

The 7CPC can make recommendations on promoting pay fairness in the central government employees’ fraternity by tackling disparities between the lowest and the highest paid central government servants.