7th Pay Commission Fitment Factor and House Rent Allowance – No Change Therein is Envisaged 7th CPC Fitment and HRA – No Change Therein is Envisaged In written reply to a question in Rajya Sabha on 11th December 2018 , Minister of State for Finance Shri P.Radhakrishnan said no change in 7th CPC Fitment Factor and House Rent Allowance. Increase in Pay Fitment Factor and HRA “The fitment factor for the purpose of fixation of pay in the revised pay structure based on the recommendations of the 7th Central Pay Commission is 2.57 which is uniformly applicable to all categories of employees. As the same is based on the specific and considered recommendations of the 7th Central Pay Commission, no change therein is envisaged. The Government vide Resolution dated 6th July, 2017 decided that HRA shall be revised to 27%, 18% and 9% of Basic Pay in X, Y and Z cities when Dearness Allowance (DA) crosses 25% and further to 30%, 20% and 10% of Basic Pay in X,Y and Z cities when DA crosses ...

7th Pay Commission: Challenging year for Central Government Employees The central government employees passed a challenging year for a number of factors including hike in pay, minimum pay hike, raising of fitment factor, pay anomalies and non-payment of arrears on allowances, employees unions said. The delayed implementation of allowances have saved the government nearly Rs 40,000 crore. The non-payment of arrears on allowances caused tremendous irritation and frustration among the central government employees, said a unions leader. The government gave higher basic pay in August 2016 with arrears, effective from January 1, 2016 to its employees on the recommendations of the 7th pay commission but the allowances notified on June 6 without arrears, which came into effect from July 1, 2017. The recommendations of the 7th Pay Commission got the Cabinet nod on June 29, 2016 in respect of basic pay, the pay panel had recommended a 14.27 per cent hike in basic pay. The previous 6th Pay Commis...

7th CPC Central government employees feel "frustrated and squeezed" by their pay Central government employees feel "frustrated and squeezed" by their pay, which has flatlined since implementation of the 7th Pay Commission recommendations. But despite broad government stagnation in pay growth, it is still possible to maximise chances of getting minimum pay hike, he added. The battle between the government and the central government employees unions is being seen because the government has decided not to give minimum pay hike for the central government employees. A letter of Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) dated October 30, states that the hike in minimum Pay and fitment formula do not appear to be treated as an anomaly, therefore, these do not come under the purview of the NAC. However, the National Anomaly Committee (NAC) has been formed in September, 2016 to look into pay anomalies arising out of the implementation of the 7th Pay Commission's recomm...

7th CPC: Minimum Pay and Fitment Factor Stories suddenly ended in anticlimax "There is no scope for them anymore to continue this story and decided to end this up with the note of 'there is no scope for change in Minimum Pay'. There is a strong reason to come up with the title for this article as 'Minimum Pay and Fitment Factor Stories suddenly ended in anticlimax'. Because many websites kept writing that Minimum Pay will be increased to Rs.21000 in January 2018. As we didn't find any truth in that stories we haven't said anything about this as it may lead the people to have false hope. Instead, we published 4 articles which claimed firmly that there was no such proposal under consideration of Government. Finally those who cooked up a story entitled 'Govt to Announce Minimum Pay Increase to Rs.21000' and writing about it on day to day basis, have come forward to end this story with a note of No Scope for change in Minimum Pay. Because they clearly k...

7th Pay Commission: New pay hike from April 2018 A top Finance Ministry official, who did not wish to be named told on Tuesday said that new pay hike for central government employees would come into effect from 1 April 2018. He said that National Anomaly Committee (NAC) is likely to submit report on new pay hike by December. The new pay hike will come into effect by April next year at the latest, he added. Earlier, the government gave nod the 7th Pay Commission proposal of minimum basic pay from Rs 7,000 to Rs 18,000 per month while the maximum basic pay from Rs 80,000 to Rs 2.5 lakh with a fitment factor of 2.57 times uniformly of sixth pay commission's basic pay. Expressing dissatisfaction over the recommendations of the 7th Pay Commission, various central government employees' unions had threatened to go on an indefinite strike from 11 July, 2016. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley was under pressure to assure to hike minimum pay for the central government employees day after the...