MAJOR

CHANGES IN
THE SIXTH
CENTRAL
PAY
COMMISSION
Change in Holidays as per Sixth Pay Commssion
Change in Holidays - Sixth Pay Commision

 Three National Holidays - The Government Office will remain closed only on the 3
National holidays.
  No other closed holidays be allowed.

 The number of Casual Leave, Half Pay Leave and Earned Leave available to
Government employees shall remain unchanged.

 Every Head of Department (HoD) should be allowed the option of declaring the office
closed for a maximum of two Restricted Holidays in a year based on local
considerations.

 Restricted Holidays available to an employee shall be increased to 8 with the list of

Restricted Holidays being suitably enlarged to include all the erstwhile Gazetted
Holidays therein.

 The number of casual leave for physically disabled employees will stand increased to
12 days. From 1/9/1981, Teachers, Principals and Head Masters working in schools
and from 28/7/1984, Librarians, Laboratory Assistants and Watermen working in
schools have not been allowed the facility of half pay leave. This facility needs to be
restored for these categories as the present rules place them in difficulties in times
of sickness, etc

House Rent Allowance - Sixth Central Pay Commission

House Rent Allowance (HRA) - Sixth Central Pay Commission Report

 The existing population criterion for classifying towns and cities for purposes of HRA
is being retained but population in the urban agglomeration should be taken into
account for classifying a city for purposes of HRA.

 HRA in A-1 cities be paid at the rate of 30% of the total of revised pay in the running
pay band and grade pay thereon.

 The Commission recommended merger of C Class Cities (having population of

50,000 to 5 lakh) with `Unclassified Towns' (having population of less than 50,000).

 Erstwhile A, B-1 and B-2 categories are being merged.

Transport Allowance - Central Pay Commission

Transport Allowance Rates from the Sixth Central Pay Commission Report

 In the revised scheme of pay scales, all the allowances and facilities will be governed
by Grade Pay.
  Physically disabled employees shall continue to draw this allowance at double the
normal rates.

 Employees in pay band PB-4 who are entitled to the use of official car for travel
between residence and office may be given the option to draw transport allowance at
a higher rate of Rs.7000 p.m. plus dearness allowance provided they give up the use
of official car for travel between residence and office.

 The existing condition which prohibits grant of Transport Allowance to the employees
who have been provided with official accommodation within one Kilometer of the
office is removed.

 Other conditions regulating the grant of this allowance shall remain unchanged.

 This, however, will be further subject to the condition that Transport Allowance in the
case of physically disabled employees shall, in no case, be less than Rs.1000 per
month plus the applicable rate of dearness allowance

LTC & other benefits - Sixth Pay Commission

Revised LTC & other benefits from the Sixth Pay Commission Report

Following are the summary of the LTC Benefits based on CPC Report

 Travel entitlements under LTC should also be same as those on official tour and
transfer except no daily allowance be payable for travel on LTC.

 Encashment of Earned Leave upto 10 days along with LTC to the extent of total of 60
days be continued.

 Consequently, the employees would be eligible to encash 300 days of Earned Leave
at the time of their retirement, even though they may have encashed Earned Leave
of upto 60 days during their career while availing LTC, whether to their home town
or to any place in India.

 The leave encashed at the time of availing LTC not be deducted from the maximum
amount of Earned Leave encashable at the time of retirement.

 The facility shall be admissible only in respect of journeys performed in vehicles

operated by the Government or any Corporation in the public sector run by the
Central or State Government or a local body.
  The Railways employees be allowed to avail of this encashment at the time of
availing of passes for a maximum of 60 days in the entire career subject to the
condition that successive encashment cannot be made before a minimum period of
two years has elapsed

Daily Allowance - Sixth Pay Commission

Daily Allowance based on Sixth Central Pay Commission Report

The recommended rates of daily allowances are illustrated in following Table.

Travelling Allowance TA - Sixth Pay Commission

Sixth Pay Commission - Traveling Allowance

Travel Entitlements

 No change in the travel entitlement for travel outside India.

  In case of road travel between places connected by rail, travel by any means of
public transport be allowed provided the total fare does not exceed the train fare by
the entitled class.
 All mileage points earned by Government employees on tickets purchased for official
travel should be utilized by the concerned department for other official travel by their
respective officers.

 In case of places not connected by train, travel by AC bus for all those entitled to
travel by AC II Tier and above in train and by Deluxe/Ordinary bus for those who are
entitled to travel by First Class/AC III Tier/AC Chair Car/Sleeper Class in train is
recommended

Sixth Pay Commission Highlights for Defence Forces India

Initial Sixth Pay Commission Report submitted by the commission was not fully
welcomed by the defence forces and have requested for changes in recommendations to the
Pay Commission Report of Defence Forces India.

Defence Forces Personnel request for changes have been heard by the Government and has
made some changes to the Pay Commission Report Section for Defence People.

Following are the Highlights of Sixth Pay Commission Report for Defence Forces of
India

 Middle level officers like Colonels placed in higher pay bands.

 At least three assured promotions for all defence forces personnel and civilian 

 While civilians would get this after 10, 20 and 30 years of service, defence forces
jawans would be promoted under ACP after 8, 16 and 24 years.

 The government has approved Military Service Pay for Armed forces personnel,

under which officers would get Rs 6,000 over and above their pay per month.

 Employees under the modified Assured Career Progression scheme.

 Demands for parity for Director Generals of central paramilitary forces has also been
met.

 The lowest limit of disability pension for defence personnel would be doubled to Rs
3100 a month.
Above Sxith Pay Commission Recommendations would be welcomed by the Defence Forces
and would bring some relief to the Disability Personnel as the Disability Pension is doubled
which should have been done before. Government has also approved Military Service Pay
for Armed Forces Personnel

Sixth Pay Commission - Pension after 20 Years of Service

Get Pension after 20 years of Service this is the new development that could encourage
more civil servants and armed forces personnel to opt for careers in the private sector, the
government has decided to grant full pension benefits to all government employees who
leave after 20 years in service, against the current 33 years.

The Union Cabinet has accepted this proposal, along with other recommendations of the
Sixth Pay Commission on pension benefits for the estimated 3.84 million central
government pensioners. Experts said the reduction in the number of years of service to 20
years to earn full pension benefit was a liberal move and would end stagnation in
government service. 

The other terminal benefits decided by approved 6CPC report are raising the gratuity limit to
Rs 10 lakh, higher pension for octogenarians, exclusion of earned leave encashed while in
service from the overall limit, clubbing of earned leave and half-day pay leave for
encashment.

Octogenarians will now be paid an additional 20 per cent of their basic pension, while those
aged 85 will get 30 per cent more, rising to 100 per cent additional pension for centurions.

Officials said the final award for pensioners accepted by the government implied that central
government pensioners would receive an overall increase of 40 per cent in pension. As a
result the total estimated pension liability of nearly Rs 29,900 crore of the central
government will go up by nearly Rs 1,400 crore annually.

Based on the Invest India Incomes and Savings Survey, 2007, it is estimated that 5.3 per
cent central government employees (170,000) are likely to retire in the two years till 2009-
10.

Another proposal to change the commutation formula and outsource the process to public
sector banks, which would have saved the government Rs 2,344 crore annually, is also
likely to have been accepted. If implemented, the government will bear only a notional
subsidy on account of the interest payable to banks by employees who decide to commute a
part of their pension, against the entire amount plus interest.and
Source : Business Standard (16-08-08)

Over Time Allowance - Sixth Pay Commission

Over Time Allowance - Following is the recommendation regarding Over Time Allowance
(O.T) from the Sixth Pay Commission Report.

Abolition of compensation in the form of Over Time Allowance or any other similar allowance
to any of the Central Government employees except those belonging to the categories of
operational staff and industrial employees governed by statute

Uniform related Allowances - Sixth Pay Commission

Uniform related Allowances as per Sixth Pay Commission

The Commission recommends the following rates of Uniform Allowance for different
categories of such personnel :

CPMFs/CPOs/RPF/IPS

Initial grant Rs.14000; Renewal grant Rs.3000; payable after every three years

Uniform allowance for Coast Guard officers:-

Initial grant Rs.16000; Renewal grant Rs.5000; payable after every three years.
Existing rates of Kit Maintenance Allowance be doubled for all categories of employees
presently in receipt of this allowance. Uniform Allowance for nurses should also be increased
to Rs.500 per month.

The rates of Uniform Allowance and Kit Maintenance

Allowance for all the above categories shall be increased by 25% every time the Dearness
Allowance on revised pay bands goes up by 50%

 The rates of all the components of Daily Allowance shall automatically increase by
25% whenever the Dearness Allowance payable on the revised pay bands goes up by
50%.

 In case of stay or journey on Government ships, boats etc.or journey to remote

places on foot/mules etc. for scientific/data collection purposes in organisations like
FSI, Survey of India, GSI etc., daily allowance will be paid at rate equivalent to that
provided for reimbursement of food bill. However, in this case the amount will be
 sanctioned irrespective of the actual expenditure incurred on this account with the
approval of the Head of Department/Controlling Officer.

 For journey on foot, an allowance of Rs.5 per kilometer traveled on foot shall be
payable additionally. This rate will also be increased by 25% whenever DA payable
on revised pay scales goes up by 50%