Recently rumour mill went overdrive in social media with the following news that
1.central government decided to Merge 50% DA with basic pay with effect from 1.1.2015 and order will be issued within 15 days
2. Encashment of Earned Leave to be curtailed to 180days instead of existing 300 days.
3.It went on to say that age of Retirement will be on completion
of 33 Years of service or at the age of 58 Years whichever is earlier
According to the Social Media , the above strong decisions were taken in
last three meeting of cabinet committee to recommend 7th pay
commission. Further the post published in social media warned the
central government employees that if above decisions are implemented;
they should not expect more from 7th Pay Commission. Since it is
considered to be the indication of what the think tank of central
government will do for its employees.
We enquired about this rumour with one of the Member to the National
council JCM, who recently met the 7th Pay Commission. According to him,
the central government has firm on its decision not to accept the Merger
of DA with Pay, since the due date of the 7th Pay Commission to submit
its recommendation is nearing and the central government in many
occasions cleared that the recommendation of 7th pay commission will be
implemented from 1.1.2016. So there is no question of issuing order for
merger of 50% DA with effect from 1.1.2015.
Further he clarified that the present government wanted to use the
man-hours of central government employees productively by introducing
new systems like bio metric attendance etc. Hence curtailing EL
Encashment will lead the central government employees to take more leave
if it is not allowed for encashment. So there is no need to implement
such proposal as government point of view is against taking leave by
Govt officials.
There is mixed response from the sources whether the retirement age of
central government employees will be revised or not. It is believed that
the present government is in favour of reducing retirement age to 58.
But at the same time government doesn’t want loose resources of
knowledge gained through experience by reducing retirement age of
Government employees. Since the work culture of government service is
deteriorating day by day due to various factors , govt would like to
retain the experience of the senior Government officials . Anubhav is
the one of the initiative introduced by the central government to
improve the work culture of youngsters in government service. So there
will not be any change in retirement age of central government employees
at present.