THE GOVT THAT CHEATS 
ITS EMPLOYEES 

BEHIND THE FACADE OF CPC

Just before and immediately after the submission of the recommendations of the 7th CPC, this Cheater Govt, went into an over drive to widely publicise about the bonanza to the Govt servants and pensioners, to suppress the simmering discontent. What we got can best be summarised in the age old saying in Hindi, "खोदा पहाड़, निकली चुहिया". The full import of the accepted recommendations are yet to be fully visualised by the general public.

This treacherous Govt, first convened a review panel just to delay implementation of 7th CPC recommendations in the name of a review by a so called high level review panel, and then announced acceptance in Jun, 2016 of the original recommendations submitted to them in Nov 2015, rejecting every word of the Report of the Review Panel.

As we all know, Pay Commissions are constituted every 10 years. The accumulated DA due to inflation in these years totals up to approximately 100 - 130%. Since the 1st CPC, the successive govts followed the practice of merging 50% of the accumulated DA with the basic salary with effect from the date the DA crossed 50%. On the implementation of the CPC recommendations, the DA started from zero.

The 7th CPC was constituted by the UPA II Govt on Fb 14, 2014. Due to the impending General Elections, the DA merger could not be implemented but the new 'Govt With A Difference', after coming to power, in a masterly act, decided to break the age old practice and ordered no DA merger.

What was the result of this gross cheating by the Govt? Let's see :

The 7th CPC fixed the minimum wage at Rs 18,000/-. How did they arrive at it ? From the elaboration given below, it will be crystal clear that the figure was arbitrarily pre-fixed and the imaginary fitment factor of 2.57 was, most conceitedly, worked out from that prefixed figure. 

In the process, the CPC ignored the need based minimum wage, worked out by others, based on the real time market prices as prevailing on 01.07.2015 and the addition of revised percentages for housing. children's education and commensurate with the prevailing standards of living. The decision of the CPC, no doubt dictated by the back-stabbing Govt, was irrational, illogical and bordered on the perverse.

The existing basic pay of the lowest level of Central Govt employee as on 01.01.2016 is Rs 7,000/- plus 125% DA. If the Govt had merged 50% of DA with basic with effect from 01.01.2011, (The date on which the DA crossed 50%), the pay of an employee at the lowest level as on 01.01.2016, would have been -

             10,500 (7,000/- +3,500/-) + 7,875/- (75% of 10,500/-) = 18,375/-
             (This is the amount that the Group 'D' employee would have got                                        
                without any Pay Commission).
What the lowest level employee received from the 7th CPC    = 18,000/- 

Thus, between the Govt and the 7th CPC, a poor lowly employee has been cheated of Rs 375/- from his existing monthly salary, if the Govt had followed the existing practice of merging 50% DA into basic pay. This amounts to an accumulated amount of Rs 45,000/- till the next CPC. Applied to the approx 5L Group D employees, the total amount cheated by this Govt is approx Rs 2,250 Crores. 

Even if the non-merger of DA is overlooked, the salary of the lowest level employee on 01.01.2016, was -

              7,000/- + 8,750/- (125% DA)  =  15,750/-

The actual raise given by the 7th CPC is, therefore, - 

               18,000/-  -  15,750/-                   =    2,250/-; i.e., a raise of 14.28%. 

Compare this to the raises granted by the successive CPCs in the past :

Final Result	2nd CPC (1960)	3rd CPC (1973)	4th CPC (1986)	5th CPC (1996)	6TH CPC (2006)	7th CPC (2016)
% Increase	14.2	20.6	27.6	31	54	14.28

As can be seen from the above, the graph of increase of pay from the first CPC of independent India, has been a steady upward graph. This treacherous Govt has brought us back to square one, from where we haltingly began. The Govt has qualified itself to the Bharat Ratna for being a true ‘Govt of Change’, for achieving what no other govt could achieve!

All this at the cost of crores of tax payer's hard earned money.

The Govt's blatant lie, "The lowest to highest paid ratio post 7th CPC is 1:3.12. Actually, the ratio is -

                                         18,000/- : 250,000/- :: 1:14 (An all time record unlikely 
                                                                                                      to be surpassed)

Some Points about retrograde recommendations of the 7th CPC made by M. Krishnan, Secretary General, Confederation of C. G. Employees & Workers :

1.    HRA for various categories of cities -

       (a)      30%    to    24%.

       (b)      20%    to    16%.

       (c)       10%    to     8%

2.   A large number (52) of allowances have been abolished.

3.   Interest free advances have been abolished.

4.   Child care leave on full pay  to the mother curtailed.

5.   All time scale promotions, now subject to passing promotion exams.

6.   No regularisation of the gramin dak sevaks of postal dept.