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Maken demands pay panel for Government employees

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Accuses the previous NDA Government of not constituting the Sixth Pay Commission Submit memo to the Union Minister

NEW DELHI: : The Member of Parliament from New Delhi, Ajay Maken, on Thursday accused the previous NDA Government of having delayed constitution of the Sixth Pay Commission for the Central Government employees and said justice should be done to the lakhs of employees. Led by Mr. Maken, the National Confederation of Central Government Employees and Workers submitted a memorandum to the Union Minister of State for Personnel and Training, Suresh Pauchori, in this connection.

Addressing a press conference here, Mr. Maken said the Fifth Pay Commission in its report had recommended that the Government should at least concede the right of the Central Government employees to have a complete pay revision once in 10 years. Ridiculing the claim of the senior BJP leader, Vijay Kumar Malhotra, that the NDA Government could not constitute the Sixth Pay Commission as early general elections were called, the AICC secretary said the fact was that the previous NDA Government had in March 2003 rejected the bid to constitute a commission. He said it was the endeavour of the United Progressive Alliance Government to benefit the employees and therefore there was no reason to ignore the legitimate demand for constituting the Sixth Pay Commission. Mr. Maken said there was a need to establish a hospital for the Central Government employees who are covered under CGHS on the pattern of hospitals run by Indian Railways for their employees and hospitals by Ministry of Defence for service personnel and first such hospital should be set up in Delhi. He said the downsizing of the Government had resulted in availability of fewer vacancies against compassionate quota that cannot exceed 5 per cent of the total available vacancies. It was therefore important that appointments under this system should be done more passionately. Pleading for an increase in the transport allowance, Mr. Maken said transport allowance of the Central Government employees was given in three slabs of Rs. 800, Rs. 400 and Rs. 100. Group A and B officers were entitled for Rs. 800 and Rs. 400 per month, while Group B non-gazetted officers were getting Rs. 100 which was discriminatory and therefore an upward revision was needed.

Mr. Maken said prior to the implementation of the Fifth Pay Commission's recommendations, Central Government employees were entitled to 12 casual leave that has been reduced to eight right now. The low paid employees who have to manage all family affairs themselves need at least one leave a month to attend to their problems. Therefore the old system of 12 casual leave should be restored, he added.

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