G.I., Dept. of Per. & Trg., O.M.No.5/16/2009.CS-II(C), dated 26/27.8.2015

Subject: Clarification regarding stepping up of pay of senior PAs of CSSS w.r.t. their juniors.

The undersigned is directed to say that several references have been received in this Department from Ministries/Departments seeking advice as to whether the pay of the senior PAs can be stepped up at par with that of their junior Shri Jai Bhagwan, PA of Department Commerce (Supply Division) (now in Ministry of Information & Broadcasting). It has also come to the notice of this Department that many Ministries/Departments have already granted stepping up of pay to their PAs at par with the pay of Shri Jai Bhagwan.

2. The issue of fixation of pay of Shri Jai ghagwan, PA has been examined in this Department. As per DoP&T’s O.M.No.35034/1/97-Estt.(D) dated 04th October, 2012, stepping up of pay is allowed to those officials who got their ACPS benefit prior no 1.1.2006 but are drawing less pay than their juniors, who got it after 1.1.2006 subject to certain conditions. Therefore, in all similar cases, the stepping up of pay of a particular senior who got the ACPS benefit before 1.1.2006 could only be allowed with direct reference to a particular junior who got it after 1.1.2006 and got his pay fixed in terrns of para 2(c) of Department of Expenditilre’s U.O. note No.10/1/2009-IC dated 14.12.2009. Any stepping up of pay is not allowable in a chain-like manner. Shri. Jai Bhagwall got ACP on 01.07.2005 and as such, para 2(c) of Department of Expenditure’s U.O. note No.10/1/2009-IC dated 14.12.2009 would apparently not apply in his case. As such, the pay fixation order No.G-12014/1/2008-Admn dated 09.02.2011 of Shri Jai Bhagwan, PA issued by the Department of Commerce (Supply Division) is not in order.

3. Ministry of I&B were requested to explore the possibility of allowing stepping up of pay to Shri Jai Bhagwan, in case his case is covered under the O.M. dated 04.10.2012. Accordingly, DAVP, Mintstry of I&B, re-examined his case and re-fixed his pay w.e.f. 01.07.2006 by granting stepping up of pay with reference to his junior namely Smt. Promila Bandooni. A copy of DAVP, M/o I&B’s Office Order No.A.20012/07/2012-Admn.l dated 15.07.201.5 regarding re-fixation of pay of Shri Jai Bhagwan, PA of CSSS enclosed herewith.

4. In view of the above, all Ministries/Departments are advised to take further necessary action to accordingly review the stepping up of pay already granted to their PAs in comparison to Shri Jai Bhagwan, PA, CSSS and necessary recoveries of excess amount, if any, be effected. in this regard, from the concerned officials.

Source : www.persmin.gov.in

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The DOPT has issued a clarification order regarding ‘Stepping up of Pay’, on 25.05.2015.(Click to view the order)

Clarifications have been given regarding the pay fixation of direct recruit Assistants who had been recruited for Central Government employment on or after 01.01.2006. Instructions have also been issued to all ministries/departments regarding the stepping up of pay at par with the pay of UDCs who were promoted as Assistants, between 01.01.2006 to 31.8.2008.

Normally, revised pay is the pay scale that comes into effect after a new Pay Commission. Pre-Revised Pay is the pay scale that is prevalent prior to the new Pay Commission.

Let’s take the case of an employee who had joined the Central Government services in February 2006. He would have received nearly 31 months of Pre-Revised Pay, i.e., the basic pay and allowances as per the 5th Pay Commission. The recommendations of the 6th Pay Commissions were announced in September 2008, but with retrospective effect from 01.01.2006 onwards. So, the employee’s pay fixation, once again refixed as per the CCS (Revised Pay) Rules 2008 and comes into effect from Feb 2006 onwards. This means that the employee was never paid according to the 5th Pay Commission, and he had been paid as per the 6th Pay Commission’s revised pay scale!

The order said that as per the CCS (RP) Rules, 2008, the stepping up of pay is allowed if the anomaly in pay, if at all arising, is a direct outcome of fixation of pay in the revised pay scale from the pre-revised scale to the effect that the senior who was drawing higher pay in the pre-revised scale, starts drawing lower pay in the revised scale.

“In the case of direct recruit Assistants appointed on or after 1.1.2006, the direct recruits never drew the pre-revised pay prior to 1.1.2006.”

“Further, Department of Expenditure’s U.O. dated 14.12.2009 relates to fixation of pay in revised scale from pre-revised scale of pay.”

Let this article not make you think that such anomaly exist only for Assistants. All those who had been recruited on 01.01.2006 are facing one tricky situation or the other. One of the main reasons for this confusion is the habit of not implementing the recommendations of the Pay Commission on the prescribed day, and dragging it on for years.

If the recommendations of the 7th Pay Commission are to be implemented from 01.01.2016 onwards, as announced earlier, then such anomalies can be avoided.

Source: www.90paisa.org

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