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| Armed forces tone down stand on pay panel after Parrikar's assurance | | | Agenices
NEw Delhi, Sept 14: The armed forces on Wednesday toned down their stand against the implementation of the 7th Central Pay Commission (CPC) after defence minister Manohar Parrikar's assurance that he would strive to resolve their "core anomalies" by taking them up with PM Narendra Modi.
After a meeting with Parrikar, IAF chief Air Chief Marshal Arup Raha issued a statement in his capacity as the chairman of the chiefs of staff committee to stress that there was no confrontation brewing between the government and the armed forces on the matter.
"Anomalies of the 7th CPC in respect of the armed forces were discussed with the defence minister in detail by the Service chiefs and the pay commission cells. The minister is seized of all the issues and has assured to resolve them at the earliest. The Services are satisfied with the response," said ACM Raha.
The armed forces had asked the government to keep in "abeyance" the implementation of the 7th CPC for them till the persisting "core anomalies" in their salary packages were resolved.
The Army, Navy and IAF headquarters had also issued signals and instructions to their 14-lakh personnel deployed in different operational commands, formations and units around the country to hold their peace till they got the government to rectify the anomalies.
"The status quo remains. With the defence minister promising early resolution of the anomalies by taking it up at the highest level, the chiefs are prepared to wait. It's very tough to get the gazette notification amended...it takes time," said an MoD official.
The 33 lakh central government civilian employees have already begun to get their enhanced salaries under the 7th CPC -- along with arrears from January 1 -- from this month onwards after their new pay-scales were earlier notified by the government.
With widespread anger and dismay in the armed forces over the way successive pay panels have systematically degraded their status, parity and equivalence as compared to their civilian counterparts, the three chiefs - ACM Raha, General Dalbir Singh Suhag and Admiral Sunil Lanba -- had even written to PM Narendra Modi about the issue in mid-July. |
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