Seventh Pay Commission To Offer Realistic View On Salaries And Allowances
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley New Delhi: Seventh Pay Commission was approved to form by the UPA government on September 25, 2013, which may benefit as many as 50 lakh central government employees and 56 lakh pensioners, with an eye on votes in that crucial election year. The Sixth pay commission was constituted in 2006 and in the normal course, the government was expected to announce the next pay commission after a gap of 10 years. The fifth came in 1996. But with the UPA government’s image battered by a spate of corruption scandals, the date had been advanced by two years in order to recover some lost ground with the electorate.