6th Pay Commission Articles

- Examining the Feasibility of Performance Related Pay (PRP) in Government - Estimating the Compensation Package for Government Employees and the Cost to the Government - Study on Terminal Benefits of the Central Government Employees

Comparison between Govt. and Pvt. Sector is not fully possible as the private sector has a very wide variations factored by place, sector, industry, ownership etc. However it is possible to make some comparisons between public sector and Govt. sectors companies.

To an extent it is possible to have a fair comparison between the salaries available in the Govt vis-ŕ-vis the salaries in the private sector.

Yes, there should be a fair comparison/parity between pay scales and perquisites in govt. and public/ private sector on the basis of profit made in these areas, keeping their social obligations in view. For instance, India Railways is an industry, manufacturing, maintenance unit as well as provides social services to public,

There shall not be any linkage of wage with productivity as production and productivity are the results of many inputs like machines, capital, raw materials, land etc. of which labour is only one. Productivity is not merely labour productivity. But in all Organised sector like Government and Public sector, the Pay scale/Wage for similar nature of job in entry with same basic qualification should be similar in fashion.

These are the following factors which tends the railways profitable: (a) Production of more trains, maintenance of these trains and to run these trains by the railway employees without increasing in the number of employees. (b) The professional attitude of railway employees.

Comparison/parity between pay scales and perquisites in Government and the Public/Private Sector is essential in order to prevent the talents going out from the Government posts.

Is it possible to quantify all other benefits, excluding pay, derived by employees in Government and the public and private sectors from security of tenure, promotional avenues, retirement packages, housing and other invisibles?

Broadly speaking it is possible and even if it is not entirely possible, yet there can be a fair comparison between salaries in the Government vis-a-vis the salaries in the private sector.

Comparison of income levels across employee populations with similar educational and professional backgrounds is natural and inescapable. Such comparisons not only determine career choices at entry levels, but also influence employee morale and motivation, attitudes and productivity.