The Hindu : New Delhi News : Sixth Pay Commission reference a big relief: Maken

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Friday, Feb 17, 2006

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Sixth Pay Commission reference a big relief: Maken

Staff Reporter

A NEW BEGINNING: The new Union Minister of State for Urban Development, Ajay Maken, with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in New Delhi on Wednesday

NEW DELHI: The Union Minister of State for Urban Development, Ajay Maken, on Wednesday said the reference to the constitution of the Sixth Pay Commission in the Presidential Address to Parliament earlier in the day had come as a great relief to lakhs of Government employees across the country.

Forefront

Mr. Maken had been in the forefront of seeking the constitution of the Sixth Pay Commission and even led a delegation to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to personally apprise him of the sentiments of the Government servants.

Gratitude

He expressed gratitude to the Prime Minister for responding to the sentiments of lakhs of employees and addressing their concerns.

The president of the National Confederation of Employees and Workers, I. A. Siddiqui, and its general secretary, S. L. Motwani, had accompanied Mr. Maken along with Jagdish Bisht, president of the Central Secretariat and Allied Officers Association.

All of them have expressed their gratitude to the UPA chairperson and Congress presidentSonia Gandhi for having taken up this issue which was pending since January 2003. Mr. Maken said the previous NDA Government considered this issue on two occasions but then it was dropped for some strange reason.

Mr. Maken said this decision would also benefit the pensioners and their families who were brought in the ambit of Fourth Pay Commission by former Prime Minister, Rajiv Gandhi. The Minister said it was not a mere coincidence that all the previous five pay commissions had been constituted only by Congress regimes.

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