Justification of Demand of Seventh Pay Commission & Merger of DA

An informative article regarding justification of demand of early setting up of Seventh Pay Commission and Merger of DA in Basic Pay published by General Secretary, Confederation of Central Government Employees and Workers Karnataka States.  The text of the article reproduced below:-

               Confederation of Central Government Employees and Workers have been demanding constitution of the 7^th CPC, DA merger , and other 15 charter of common demands of the Central Government Employees apart from 48 common demands of the CG Employees which has been accepted by the Kolkatta conference.

      The Common questions & answers which the Government of India has been  answering is that as follows.

1) The 6^th CPC has not recommended the DA merger has recommended 25% increase in certain allowances.

2) The 6^th CPC has not recommended the constitution of the 7^th CPC and is silent on this issue.

3) Normally it takes 10 years to set up another Central Pay Commission.

4) The DA as recommended as per the Consumer price index is released which works out to 80% as on 1/1/2013. So when ever the prices have gone up DA is provided to compensate the rising of prices.

5) If another Central Pay Commission is set up there will be huge burden on common man, at this stage the Government of India cannot afford to set up 7^th CPC

6) The anomalies  are being taken up the National anomalies committee

Now comrades the above reply are standard in nature, all the above questions are answered in the following text.