The Jammu and Kashmir government today nominated the Home Department's administrative secretary as the new chairman of the Pay Committee.
The Planning, Development and Monitoring Department's administrative secretary earlier held this post.
Setting the ball rolling for the implementation of the Seventh Central Pay Commission in Jammu and Kashmir, the state government had in April set up a seven-member panel to examine the revision of pay scales of state employees and pensioners, an official spokesman said.
The administrative secretary, planning development and monitoring department, shall continue to be a member of the committee.
The other members of the panel comprise administrative secretaries of finance, law and justice, public works and general administration departments, the spokesman said.
Director codes and finance department is the member- secretary of the panel, he said.
Finance Minister Haseeb Drabu, who presented the Budget in January, had said the state government would implement the Seventh Pay Commission's recommendations from 1 April, 2018, the spokesman said.
The Pay Committee shall examine the import of Commission's recommendations vis-a-vis the existing pay bands and desirability of changing them suitably, he said.
It shall review the structure of medical, compensatory, house rent, temporary move and other allowances.
The Pay Committee shall suggest an overall package keeping in view any other point which may have a direct bearing on the issue of restructuring of pay bands, the spokesman said.
It shall also examine the principles which should govern the structure of pension, death-cum-retirement gratuity, family pension and other terminal and recurring benefits having financial implications to the state government employees falling under the old pension scheme, he said.
The committee shall examine the desirability and need to sanction an interim relief till the time its recommendations are made, and accepted by the government.
The Pay Commission will benefit over 4.5 lakh employees, besides pensioners in the state.
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