The four-member Pension Revision Committee constituted by Haryana Government to implement the recommendations of 7th Central Pay Commission for its pensioners submitted its report to Finance Minister, Capt. Abhimanyu on Monday.
The State Government had constituted this committee under the chairmanship of Additional Chief Secretary, Finance, P Raghavendra Rao.
Finance Minister Capt. Abhimanyu, while talking to the mediapersons on Monday said that the report of the committee would be tabled in the next cabinet meeting.
The cabinet will review the recommendations of the committee and we are hopeful that the pensioners would get the benefit of implementation of 7th Central Pay Commission (CPC). Haryana would become the first state to extend the benefits of 7th CPC to the pensioners, said the Minister.
Though the Finance Minister did not disclose the recommendations of the committee, he said that the State Government would try to extend the benefits of 7th Pay Commission to the pensioners as given by the Central Government.
About burden on state exchequer, he added that a provision of amount required for implementation of recommendations of 7th CPC for pensioners have been made in the upcoming budget.As per the sources, the committee in its report has proposed to increase pension by 2.57 times more over the 6th Pay Commission retrospectively from January 1, 2016. There are more than 2 lakh pensioners in the state.
Notably, Haryana Government had announced to give the benefit of 7th CPC to its employees from January 1,2016, the date from which the employees of the Central Government have been given its benefit.After this, about 2.5 lakh employees of group-A, B, C and D got a hike of 32 per cent over basic pay as on January 1,2016.The state exchequer would bear the burden of around Rs 1650 crore on account of implementation of 7th CPC recommendations.