Approaches Adopted by Successive Pay Commissions with regard to the Pay Structure of Defence Service Personnel
Approaches Adopted by Successive Pay Commissions with regard to the Pay Structure of Defence Service Personnel
The approaches adopted by successive Committees/Commissions with regard to the pay
structure of defence service personnel are outlined in Table 1:
Approach followed by Successive Pay Commissions
Approach through Various Committees/Commissions
The approaches adopted by successive Committees/Commissions with regard to the pay
structure of defence service personnel are outlined in Table 1:
Approach followed by Successive Pay Commissions
Sl.No.
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Committee/Commission
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Approach
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1
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Post War
Pay Committee
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a) The basic principle followed was one of
“comparability” with civilian rates of pay under the government and of an
‘all inclusive nature of Pay.’
b) For pay of Service officers, a broad relativity
was established with Officers of Class I Central Services and the Indian
Police Service.
c) For devising pay of PBORs, a fully trained
infantry soldier with three years’ service was equated to workers classified
as ‘Semi Skilled’ by the Central Pay Commission.
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2
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Raghuramaiah
Committee
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a) It accepted the parallel between Defence
Service Officers and Class I Service of the Central Government, particularly
the Indian Police Service.
b) For the infantry soldier it accepted the
parallel with the semi-skilled industrial worker.
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3
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III CPC
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a) It held
that the relativities between servicemen and their civilian analogue can only
be in broad terms because of the substantial differences in their roles and
conditions of service.
b) The Commission noted that there was no
justification for continuance of the Special Disturbance Allowance. It did
not, however, recommend total abolition of this allowance since it had
existed for a long time; it instead recommended a higher starting salary for
commissioned officers as compared to those in civilian Class I service.
c) The Commission equated the pay of a fully
trained Infantry soldier with three years of service with a civilian worker
placed between ‘semiskilled’ and ‘skilled’ workman and added 5 percent of pay
as X factor into it.
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4
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IV CPC
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a) The
Commission noted that the pay structure for the armed forces should provide a
reasonable pay progression to Officers of Services. It recommended an
integrated pay scale with Rank Pay, covering a span of 28 years for certain
level of officers.
b) The Commission noted that the duties and
responsibilities of an infantry soldier are such that he cannot be compared
with any other category of employees.
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5
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V CPC
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a) The
Commission observed that the pay structure is required to be evolved on the
basis of broad comparability with civilian pay scales so as to ensure that
the scheme of remuneration for these two categories is not very dissimilar.
b) The Commission did not favour a separate
dispensation for Armed Forces personnel and felt that a better method would
be to provide explicit compensation in the regular pay scales. The
Commission, accordingly, recommended abolition of integrated pay scales by regular
pay scales with rank pay with progression in pay being provided by the
mechanism of ACP Scheme.
c) The Commission agreed with the approach of III
CPC that an ‘all inclusive salary’ may not be workable in the Indian context
and therefore recommended continuance of all existing concessions and an edge
in starting scale to compensate for special features of military life.
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6
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VI CPC
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a) The Commission introduced running pay bands
for defence forces personnel also at par with that for Civilians. This was to
give effect to the recommendation regarding absorption of all Short Service
Commissioned Officers (SSCOs) and JCOs/ORs at appropriate levels in the
Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) and other Defence Civilian Organisations.
b) The edge enjoyed by Defence forces over the
civilian scales was given in the form of a separate element viz., Military
Service Pay. c) Common pay scales were granted to JCOs/ORs by re-organising
the existing three groups (X, Y and Z) into two groups (X and Y). X-Pay of
₹1,400 per month was granted for JCOs/ORs of X group
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Authority: 7th Pay Commission Report
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