Chennai: The Tamil Nadu government on Tuesday announced the constitution of a committee of officials to go into the recommendations of the 7th Central Pay Commission and accordingly give suggestions on revising the pay scales for state government employees.
Chief minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami announced that a five-member panel headed by additional chief secretary, finance, K. Shanmugam would be set up for this purpose.
The committee, whose others members include Principal Home Secretary Apurva Verma, has been asked to “study the Central government’s decisions on recommendations on revised pay scale made by the 7th Pay Commission” and make suitable suggestions on pay scale revision of state government employees, he said.
The panel will also study recommendations by the Centre on the revised pension scale and related matters and give its suggestions on extending them to the state government beneficiaries, he said in a statement.
“This committee will also go into matters relating to various allowances and make suitable suggestions,” he said, adding, he has asked the panel to submit its report by 30 June.
