6th Pay Commission Articles

Today we are living in an era of globalization and free economy. Therefore, each and every organizations are competing with each other with respect their quality of product as well as services in accordance with international standard so that customers / consumers can' be satisfied up to the highest level.

In view of the prevailing socio and economic scenario, though absolute parity in pay and perks in Government, public and private sectors may not be realistic some sort of comparisons would not be out of place. The legitimate aspirations of a Government servant can not be ignored.

Comparison with Private and Public Sector and review based on the same is a healthy trend. As the former Finance Minister Jaswant Singh put it, Govt. employees should also be paid decent wages and payment of “living wages” is an international principle. In fact Govt. employees deserve more as they forfeit even citizenship rights like contesting in elections, participating in political campaigns, running other business, etc. Hence ends of justice demand that they be placed at higher level in forms of known wages.

a) Such comparisons can be made only with private companies of optimum size and reputation b) The qualifications prescribed for the post shall be considered c) The length of service shall also be equated d) The comparison with the PSU / Private Sector employees is always relevant. If all these factors are taken into consideration you can see that the PSU / Private Sector employees are getting better pay packets and facilities than the government employees

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-à-vis the salaries in the private sector.

Yes, that should be. It is natural. This has always been present between the people of same status, breathing in same geographical section and living in same socio-economic-political environment.

At the time of Independence, there were no public sector undertakings. Except Tatas and Birlas there were no notable private sector undertakings. During the early plan periods, the government wanted to create infrastructure for future development of the country. As there were no entrepreneurs who could take up such big projects, public sector undertakings were created. Most of the public sector undertakings were initially manned by manpower drawn from the government. The administrative set up was similar to government but with better scales of pay.

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? In view of these benefits, can there be any fair comparison between the salaries available in the government vis-à-vis the salaries in the private sector?

Sixth Central Pay Commission had invited all interested persons, including members of the public, peoples' representatives

To examine the principles, the date of effect thereof that should govern the structure of pay, allowances and other facilities/benefits whether in cash or in kind to the following categories of employees