Claiming Children education Allowance is made simple in 7th Pay Commission

Claiming Children education Allowance is made simple in 7th Pay Commission

Claiming Children education Allowance is made simple in 7th Pay Commission

CHILDREN EDUCATION ALLOWANCE IN 7TH CPC – SOME PERSPECTIVES

The 7th pay commission, which is much expected by all the Central Government Employees, has submitted its report to the government. In its report, the commission has specified that the new pay commission has to be implemented from 01/01/2016 onwards.

The expectations of all the Central Government Employees is focused on: Dearness Allowance, House 
Rent Allowance and Children Education Allowance.

The fact that the 6th Pay Commission revived the CEA can never be repudiated. Although there are various problems in getting the reimbursement of the allowance, the 6th Pay Commission stands first when it comes to CEA.

7th CPC recommended CEA Rs 2250 pm from existing Rs 1500pm.

The 7th Pay Commission has taken great pains to do away with the practical problems in 6th CPC (Reimbursement).

Particularly, the recommendation that getting a letter from the schools where the children of the Central Government Employees studying is enough will be certainly welcomed by all.

In order to get CEA for those children, who study in the same school from class 1 to class 12, is it necessary to get a certificate for every year? Or is it enough to get a certificate when the child is transferred to another school?

Questions like these naturally arise in our minds.

Getting good education is depends upon getting admission in standard schools. Naturally fees struture is high in these schools.So education expenses get important place in employees monthly budget.

The fact that same amount of CEA will be given for children who study in class 1 and class 12 is irrational. From class 1, every year when the child goes to higher classes, the minimal sum of Rs 2250 has to be increased by atleast 5%.

As per the recommendation of the 7th CPC, when DA exceeds 50%, the CEA increases by 25%. In this case, even to get the first CEA increase one has to wait for at least four or five years. We have to keep in mind that the pay commission is set up only once in ten years.

In spite of all these, the CEA announcement of the 7th CPC is a certainly a laudable one. If it had included the above aspects if would have been even more appreciable.

S.Ratheesh 

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VII CPC recommendations

VII CPC recommendations

Constitute a GoM (Group of Ministers) for negotiating with the C.G officers & employees and modify VII CPC recommendations.
Government’s decision on 13.01.16 to set up a panel headed by Cabinet Secretary P K Sinha to process the recommendations of the 7th Pay Commission is not sufficient. The Government should come forward to constitute a ‘GoM’ as was done in some other occasions including 5th CPC time to discuss the issues in a meaningful way.
The Cabinet has approved the setting up of Empowered Committee of Secretaries to process the recommendations of 7th Pay Commission. The Empowered Committee of Secretaries will function as a Screening Committee to process the recommendations with regard to all relevant factors of the Commission in an expeditious detailed and holistic fashion, an official statement said.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley had said earlier that he was not worried about fiscal deficit and government would be able to meet its target despite additional outgo on account of higher pay.
When the whole nation has started to mobilise the entirety of CG Employees behind the demands of modifications to be made in the VII CPC recommendations, the Honourable Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has stated that he is prepared to discuss for improving the recommendations of 7th CPC!
This utterance from the Finance Minister is welcome as that is what the CG Movement too has demanded. The AIDTOA, CCGGOO & NJCA have demanded discussion with the Government and for that purpose the Government shall come forward to constitute a ‘GoM’ (Group of Ministers) as was done in some other occasions including 5th CPC time. The GoM can take necessary decisions to modify the recommendations. The Finance Minister, who has spoken in favour of discussion, shall go ahead and ensure that Central Government constitutes a Group of Ministers arrangement to discuss the issues in a meaningful way. If the Government comes forward with this formation then we can understand that the Union Finance Minister means what he has stated.
At the same time we cannot close our eyes to some realities of what the Honourable Minister of Finance stated. He has repeated that more than one lakh crore of rupees will be the expenditure for implementing the 7th CPC, which is highly questionable and misleading. He said that on the face of universal economic crisis, India could maintain its GDP growth around 7.5%, require additional 1-1.5% GDP growth to meet out the expenditure of 7thCPC. This calculation is unacceptable as it is overestimated. The 7thCPC seems to have been misled by its economic experts in the Pay Commission as the figures of the Finance Minister as made out in the Parliament vary largely. The Government placing its own constraints before any dialogue is understandable but it should come forward with open mind for the negotiating table.
The call of the AIDTOA, CCGGOO & NJCA is the factor that brought out the averment of the Finance Minister about the readiness to negotiate. Stronger implementation of programme of action by C.G Officers and employees will surely force the Government to constitute a GOM for negotiating with the employees!