Invitations have been sent to all the employee organizations including the Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh for the meeting in Delhi on 7th January. After this, further strategy will be decided.
7th Pay Commission: Before the new year, 1 crore central employees and pensioners (Central Government employees) have suffered a major setback. The Modi government at the Center has refused to give DA arrears of 18 months. Minister of State for Finance Pankaj Chaudhary has given information in this regard in the Rajya Sabha. After this, resentment has increased among the employees and pensioners and now they are preparing to agitate. There will be an important meeting regarding this in the new year and for this invitation has been sent to all the organisations.
If media reports are to be believed, now the Central Employees Union has decided to convene an important meeting in Delhi on January 7, next month against the arrears, in which the strategy of the movement will be decided. According to the news of Amar Ujala, the All India Defense Employees Federation General Secretary of ‘AIDEF’ and member of National Council (JCM) of ‘Staff Side’ C. Sreekumar says that on one hand the Finance Minister claims that the country’s economy is better and on the other hand the arrears are stopped citing the economy . , Invitations have been sent to all the employee organizations including the Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh for the meeting in Delhi on 7th January. After this, further strategy will be decided.
Shock to 1 crore employees
In fact, central employees have arrears of DA from July 2020 to January 2021, 2 years ago during the Corona period, dearness allowance / dearness relief of 48 lakh central employees and 64 lakh pensioners was banned, which they have been waiting for a long time. were raising demands. The employees were hopeful that the arrears would be cleared soon, as several rounds of meetings had taken place and Secretary Shiv Gopal Mishra had written several letters to the government and the Pensioners Association had also appealed to PM Modi.
Clear denial of central government
But the hopes of the employees-pensioners were dashed when the Central Government made it clear in the Parliament on Tuesday that it is not practical to issue arrears of Dearness Allowance for 18 months. There is no such provision. The government said that due to the financial implications Release of arrears of DA to employees and DR to pensioners was not considered appropriate. In a written reply to a question in the House, Minister of State for Finance Pankaj Chowdhary made it clear that it is not practical to release the arrears of dearness allowance and dearness relief to central government employees and pensioners that were stopped during the Corona period.
Arrears will be made from 11000 to 2 lakhs
Now the employee union is unhappy with the government’s response, saying that it cannot be stopped. The government should also consider other aspects in this matter, the unions are now making a strategy for the movement. It is estimated that the total amount of arrears is around Rs 34,000 crore, which has saved the Central Government. It is likely that the employees of Level-1 in the range of Rs 11,880 to 37,554, Level-13 (7th CPC Basic Pay-Scale Rs 1,23,100 to Rs.2,15,900) and Level-14 (Pay Scale) have arrears of Rs.1,44,200 to Rs.2,18,200.
