Naysa Shrivastava, Pune
During the cabinet meeting chaired by the CM of Karnataka, Siddaramaiah, the decision to hike salary has been approved. On Monday, it was announced that government employees will get a 27.5 % hike in salary. The CM will be declaring this decision for over 7 lakh people working in the government sector during the legislative assembly. The head of the 7th Pay Commission, former chief secretary Sudhakar Rao presented this idea to hike the salary of the government employees.
Priyank Kharge, Karnataka minister told Mint, “Seventh pay commission was one of the demands of the people and it was also present in our manifesto. Yesterday we brought it into the Cabinet and it will benefit lakhs of employees.” The implementation of this will cost an additional Rs. 20,208 crores annually and help in possession, employees will be satisfied with the procedure, budgetary provisions have been made in the budget of 2024-25. The motive behind this hike is to enhance public services and increase revenue expenditure.
In Chikkamagaluru, the members of the Karnataka State Government Employees Association held a meeting to begin a three-phase protest which will end in an indefinite strike planned for July 29. The association is appreciative of the decision, Shadakshari, the head of the association told the Times of India, “We welcome the decision for providing employees with a 27.5% salary hike.” The administration anticipated adding 10.5 percentage points to fulfill the recommendation criteria of 27.5%. The then CM Basavaraj Bommai also approved an interim salary hike of 17% in March 2023.
Deputy CM DK Shivakumar confirmed the news via an X post, “Good news for government employees: The cabinet meeting held today implemented the 27.5% salary hike after the 7th Pay Commission recommendations, it will come into play from August 1.” Central government employees witnessed an increase in their pay scale after the transition from the 6th pay commission to the 7th pay commission (CPC). The CPC guidelines state that government employees are eligible for a minimum pay will rise from 17,000 to 27,000 while the maximum will go to 2,41,200, as approved by the cabinet to boost the salary. The rise in the pay scale has directly impacted the pension and it has been raised from Rs.8500 to 13,500 and the maximum will be revised from 75,300 to 1,20,600.