Agenda Items for NAC Meeting: 3% Increment at all stages

Agenda Items for NAC Meeting: 3% Increment at all stages

Item No:2 : 3% Increment at all stages

In Para 5.1.21, the Commission has stated that it has constructed the Pay Matrix, which has two dimensions i.e. horizontal and vertical ranges. The vertical range is supposed to denote the pay progression with the level. The steps are to reflect the annual forward progression of three per cent in each level. More specifically under the Caption “Annual increment” in Para 5.1.38, the Commission has emphatically stated that the annual  increment is being retained at 3 percent. 

In the forward to the report, the Chairman Justice Shri AK Mathur (Para 1.19) writes “the prevailing rate of increment is considered quite satisfactory and has been retained”. This apart in para 4.1.17, the Commission states that the various stages within a level moves upward @ 3% p.a.

Having stated categorically that a Govt servant must get his annual increment @3% of his pay, the recommendation that one’s pay on award of annual increment must move to the next cell in the matrix would become tenable only if the difference between the two cells is more than 3% of the Pay of the Govt servant. 

From the chart annexed it could be seen that it si not so at many stages warranting a revision of the Pay Matrix at those level, where the employee gets less than 3% as has annual increment when he moves on to the next higher stage in the matrix.

ILLUSTRATION –I – LOSS IN INCREMENT

Pay Level	Sl.No. in the Pay Level (Cell)	Basic Pay in the Revised Pay Scale	Next above Basic Pay after adding 3% increment	Next above Basic Pay fixed as per pay matrix	Amount of loss to the employee	Actual increment rate %age
1	12	24900	25647	25600	47	2.81
1	26	37600	38728	38700	28	2.92
3	9	27600	28428	28400	28	2.89
3	16	34000	35020	35000	20	2.94
4	11	34300	35329	35300	29	2.91
4	22	47500	48925	48900	25	2.94
5	10	38100	39243	39200	43	2.88
5	20	51100	52633	52600	33	2.93
6	6	41100	42333	42300	33	2.91
6	9	44900	46247	46200	47	2.89

Agenda Item No 1: Anomaly in computation of Minimum Wage 

Agenda Item No 2: 3% Increment at all stages

Agenda Item No 3: Removal of condition of 3% stipulated to grant bunching benefit

Agenda Item No 4: Fixation of Pay on Promotion

Agenda Item No 5: Removal of Anomaly in Pay Matrix

Agenda Item No 6: Anomaly due to index rationalization

Agenda Item No 7: Anomaly arising from the decision to reject option No.1 in pension fixation

Agenda Item No 8: Lesser Pay in higher Level of Pay Matrix

Agenda Item No 9: Bunching of steps in the Revised Pay structure

Agenda Item No 10: Minimum Pension

Agenda Item No 11: Date of Effect of Allowances – HRA, Transport Allowance, CEA etc.

Agenda Item No 12: Parity in Pay Scale between Sr Auditor/Sr Accountant of IA&AD

Agenda Item No 13: Parity in Pay Scales between Assistants/Stenographers

Agenda Item No 14: Grant of GP 5400 to Senior Section Officer of Railways & AAOs of IA&AD

Agenda Item No 15: Technical Supervisors of Railways