VII Pay Commission :
First CPC to Third CPC Pay Scales
Now all the central government employees federations are
demanding the govt. to set up seventh pay commission soon. So far six pay
Commissions have been set up till date from 1946 by Government of India to
review and recommend wage structure for all the central government employees
including postal, railway, defence civilian employees and armed forces. All the
matters pertaining to the government servants like Pay and Allowances
,promotion policy, retirement benefits, service condition also been thoroughly reviewed
by these Pay commissions after every ten years and they submit recommendations
to the government for the approval.
At the advent of First
Pay Commission, there was 1934 th year pay Scales were remained in effect. The
pay scales prescribed by first pay commission replaced the 1934 pay Scales.
First Pay Commission
The first pay
commission was constituted in 1946 and the government appointed Srinivasa
Varadacharia as Chairman of this commission. The first pay commission was based
upon the idea of “living wages” to the employees, this idea was taken from the
Islington Commission and the commission observed that “the test formulated by
the Islington Commission is only to be liberally interpreted to suit the
conditions of the present day and to be qualified by the condition that in no
case should be a man’s pay be less than a living wage.
The minimum basic pay
for Class IV staff has been raised from Rs. 10/- to Rs. 30/- and for Class III
from Rs. 35/- to Rs. 60/- per month.
The Commission had
fixed Rs. 55/- as minimum wage (Rs. 30 plus Rs. 25 as Dearness Allowance). The
recommendations were accepted and implemented in 1946.
The Second Pay Commission
10 years after
independence, the second pay commission was set up in August 1957. Shri
Jaganath Das was appointed as Chairman of this Commission. The second pay
commission finished its report within two years and submitted it to the
Government. The recommendations of the second pay commission had a financial
impact of Rs 396 million.The second pay commission reiterated the principle on
which the salaries have to be determined. It stated that the pay structure and
the working conditions of the government employee should be crafted in a way so
as to ensure efficient functioning of the system by recruiting persons with a
minimum qualification. The Commission revised the pay scales by merging 50% of
the Dearness Allowance with basic Pay and it recommended Rs. 80 as the minimum
remuneration(Basic Pay Rs. 70plus DA Rs.10/-) payable to a Government employee.
Third Pay Commission
Shri. Raghubir Dayal
was appointed as Chairman of the third pay commission. It was set up in April
1970 and gave its report in March 1973. The commission took almost 3 years to
submit the report,. The main demand of employees for a need based minimum wage
as per the norms of 15th Indian Labour Conference was accepted in principle
even though Commission evolved its own concept of need based wage.
The Third Pay
Commission recommended Minimum remuneration of Rs. 185 per month.
By taking into the
consideration of employee’s views Government modified some of the
recommendations of the Commission and minimum wage was raised from Rs. 185 per
month to Rs. 196/- per month.
The pay scales of
group ‘D’, ‘C’ and ‘B’ of Third Pay commission and IV pay commission given
below. In the case of minimum basic pay of each scale of Pay in the two pay
commissions recommended scales given below , it is to be kept in mind that 4th
CPC pay was increased by 2.8 to 3.8 times from 3rd CPC.
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