Merger
Of 50% DA With Pay
The 30th Plenary Session of Indian
National Trade Union Congress INTUC is being held in Raipur from 6-9-2013 to
9-9-2013 is concluded today. There are 4 Resolutions which are considered to be
very important are adopted in this Conference.One of the four main resolution
is Merger of 50% DA with Pay for central government employees. So the INTUC
urges the central government to consider the demand and accord sanction for
merging 50% DA with pay. The Resolution On Merger Of 50% DA With Pay which has
been adopted in 30th Plenary Session of INTUC held in Raipur from 6-9-2013 to
9-9-2013 is given below
Resolution On Merger Of 50% DA With
Pay
The Wage structure revision for
Central Government employees had been enquired into by the successive pay
Commission appointed by the Government of India during the past decades and
gave their reports. The Government had considered the reports and decided for
implementation with certain changes and improvements.
The previous pay Commissions
(3rd,4th,5thand 6th ) have ,by and large, covered the aspects of the principle
of wage determination . But however the job contents, remuneration
commensuration with the nature of duties and responsibilities have not been
taken into consideration by the pay Commissions while determining the revised
pay structure, consequently the railway men have been put into disadvantage.
The 5th CPC had recommended that the
DA must be merged with pay and treated as pay for computing all allowance as
and when the percentage of dearness compensation exceeds 50%. Accordingly even
before the setting up of 6th CPC, the DA of 50% was merged with pay.
Presently, the dearness compensation
is 80% as on 1st January, 2013, while the DA had crossed 50% of pay as on 1st
January, 2011.The demand for merger of DA to partially compensate the erosion
in the real wages was first mooted by the Gadgil Committee in the 2nd pay
Commission period. The 3rd CPC had recommended such merger when the cost of
living Index crosses over 272 points i.e. 72 points over and above the base
index adopted for the pay revision. In other words, the recommendation of the
3rd CPC was to merge the DA when it crossed 36%. The Government in the national
Council JCM at the time of negotiation had initially agreed to merge 60% DA and
later the whole of the DA before the 4th CPC was set up. The 5th CPC had merged
98%of DA with pay.
As the DA already stood at 80% of
Pay and another installment is expected to be granted w.e.f. July, 2013 which
may cross 90%,it is necessary that the Government takes steps to merge 50%DA
with pay for all purposes for the year 2013 for ensuring compensation to the
erosion of value of real wage of government employees.
The Plenary Session of INTUC
therefore urges upon the Government of India to consider the demand and accord
sanction for merging DA component i.e. 50% of DA with pay for all purposes.
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