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| J&K govt willing to bring judicial officers under 6th Pay Commission: Rather | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Mar 3: Minister for Finance, A. R. Rather has said that the recommendations of Padamnabhan Committee constituted by Supreme Court regarding pay revision of judicial officers have not been implemented in the state as the case was sub-judice.
Replying to a question by Nazir Ahmad Gurezi, Rather said that state government has filed an application before Supreme Court seeking exemption of its order issued May 2010 in respect of J&K regarding the recommendation of Padamnabhan Committee. Rather said that though the state government had decided to implement sixth pay recommendations in favour of the judicial officers but the Law department as well as delegation of the judicial employees asked to wait till the outcome of the case in the Supreme Court so that appropriate decision could be taken in the matter.
Replying to the supplementaries of M. Y. Tarigami, Harshdev Singh, Rafi Ahmad Mir, Jagdish Raj Sapolia and Choudhary Zulfikar Ali, the Minister assured the members that the case would be vigorously perused. He further said that finance commission has submitted its report on November 30, 2010 to the Chief Minister, adding that the voluminous report is being examined. He said that a separate dissenting note has also been submitted by one of the members of the commission.
This was stated by the Minister while replying to a question raised by Prof. Chaman Lal Gupta today in the House. Giving details about terms of reference of Finance Commission, the Finance Minister said that the commission was constituted in January 15, 2008 under section 12 of the Jammu and Kashmir State Financial Commission Act 2006 to see whether there has been any kind of disparity with various regions and sub-regions of the State.
He said that functions entrusted to the finance commission included mapping the regions and sub-regions with reference to well accepted development indicators, identifying the backward districts of the State and to assess the deviation of these districts from the mean developmental level of the state. Rather said that the terms of reference also included evolving a set of policy instructions to equalize and balance the dispersal of development across the districts.
He said that commission had also to see formulation of a set of administrative measures aimed at bringing reforms in decision making in governance and development through decentralized processes and mechanism. Minister said that commission has also asked to identify the employment backlog at the regional, sub-regional, district or the targeted economic unit level and recommend measures for removal of disparities, suggest measures needed to augment the resources of the state government, particularly to supplement resources of Halqa Panchayats, municipalities and Municipal Corporations in the State, besides any other matter, which may be ancillary or incidental to the aforesaid functions.
Minister said that reviewing the state of finance of the state and suggest restructuring of the public finances restoring budgetary balance, achieving macro-economic stability and debt reduction, suggesting measures for effective implementation of the recommendations and award under 12th finance commission, particularly fiscal reform and budget programme and correcting measures for debit reduction and sustainability besides overall improvement in human development and investment climate were also included in the terms of reference of the Finance Commission.
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