The Central Civil Services Revised Pay Rules (2008) have been notified. The pay structure has been modified totally bringing in new concepts of Pay Bands and Grade Pay.
For the organized accounts set-up the most significant development in the revised pay rules is the merger of certain scales and the up-gradation of pay scales of certain posts. I have already touched upon the topic of merger of scales in my previous blog. Here I will discuss the topic of up-gradation of pay scales.
The pay scales of SOs/JAOs has been upgraded from pre-revised scales of 6500-200-10500 to the pre-revised scale of 7500-250-12500, that of the AAOs has been upgraded from 7450-225-11500 to 7500-250-12500 and the pay scale of AOs has been upgraded from 7500-250-12500 to 8000-275-13500. What does this up-gradation mean in real terms to these officials ? How does it benefit them during fixation and promotion ? Let me answer these questions.
A reading of the notification and the clarification issued by the government clearly indicates that the up-gradation does not mean that these officials will get placed in the higher pay scale on 01-01-2006 and that their fixation under revised pay bands will be with reference to their pay in the up-graded scale. The up-gradation only means that these officials will draw the grade pay of the up-graded scales. Thus a SO/JAO and a AAO will draw grade pay of 4800 (which is the grade pay for the scale 7500-12500) and an AO will draw grade pay of 5400(which is the grade pay of the scale 8000-13500). Let me illustrate this with some examples
For the organized accounts set-up the most significant development in the revised pay rules is the merger of certain scales and the up-gradation of pay scales of certain posts. I have already touched upon the topic of merger of scales in my previous blog. Here I will discuss the topic of up-gradation of pay scales.
The pay scales of SOs/JAOs has been upgraded from pre-revised scales of 6500-200-10500 to the pre-revised scale of 7500-250-12500, that of the AAOs has been upgraded from 7450-225-11500 to 7500-250-12500 and the pay scale of AOs has been upgraded from 7500-250-12500 to 8000-275-13500. What does this up-gradation mean in real terms to these officials ? How does it benefit them during fixation and promotion ? Let me answer these questions.
A reading of the notification and the clarification issued by the government clearly indicates that the up-gradation does not mean that these officials will get placed in the higher pay scale on 01-01-2006 and that their fixation under revised pay bands will be with reference to their pay in the up-graded scale. The up-gradation only means that these officials will draw the grade pay of the up-graded scales. Thus a SO/JAO and a AAO will draw grade pay of 4800 (which is the grade pay for the scale 7500-12500) and an AO will draw grade pay of 5400(which is the grade pay of the scale 8000-13500). Let me illustrate this with some examples
Pay fixation of a JAO drawing 7100 on 01-01-06 in the scale of 6500-200-10500.
His fixation on 01-01-2006 as JAO will be:
- Existing Pay Scale: 6500-200-10500
- Pay Band Applicable: 9300-34800
- Existing Basic Pay as on 01-01-2006: 7100
- Pay after multiplication factor of 1.86: 13210
- Pay in the Pay Band: 13210
- Pay in the pay band after including benefit of bunching if any: 13210
- Grade Pay attached to the scale: 4800
- Revised Pay = total of pay in the pay band and grade pay: 18010
- Minimum of the pay in this grade: 18150
- Revised Pay = total of pay in the pay band and grade pay: 18150
- Existing Pay Scale: 6500-200-10500
- Up-graded Pay Scale: 7500-250-12500
- Pay Band Applicable: 9300-34800
- Existing Basic Pay as on 01-01-2006: 7100
- Basic Pay after Up-gradation: 7500
- Pay after multiplication factor of 1.86: 13950
- Pay in the Pay Band: 13950
- Pay in the pay band after including benefit of bunching if any: 13950
- Grade Pay attached to the scale: 4800
- Revised Pay = total of pay in the pay band and grade pay: 18750
- Minimum of the pay in this grade: 18150
- Revised Pay = total of pay in the pay band and grade pay: 18750
Pay fixation of a AAO drawing 8575 on 01-01-06 in the scale of 7450-225-11500.
His fixation on 01-01-2006 will be:
- Existing Pay Scale: 7450-225-11500
- Pay Band Applicable: 9300-34800
- Existing Basic Pay as on 01-01-2006: 8575
- Pay after multiplication factor of 1.86: 15950
- Pay in the Pay Band: 15950
- Pay in the pay band after including benefit of bunching if any: 15950
- Grade Pay attached to the scale: 4800
- Revised Pay = total of pay in the pay band and grade pay: 20750
- Minimum of the pay in this grade: 18150
- Revised Pay = total of pay in the pay band and grade pay: 20750
- Existing Pay Scale: 7450-225-11500
- Up-graded Pay Scale: 7500-250-12500
- Pay Band Applicable: 9300-34800
- Existing Basic Pay as on 01-01-2006: 8575
- Basic Pay after Up-gradation: 8750
- Pay after multiplication factor of 1.86: 16280
- Pay in the Pay Band: 16280
- Pay in the pay band after including benefit of bunching if any: 16280
- Grade Pay attached to the scale: 4800
- Revised Pay = total of pay in the pay band and grade pay: 21080
- Minimum of the pay in this grade: 18150
- Revised Pay = total of pay in the pay band and grade pay: 18750
Similarly will be the pay fixation of AOs and SAOs. Please note that in all cases the up-gradation of pre-revised scales means these officials will be getting only the grade pay of the up-graded scales. If not for the up-gradation they would have got the grade pay of their respective scales i.e., 4200, 4600 and 4800.
I hope the above clears any doubts you may have about up-gradation. For further queries and specific examples post your comments to this blog.
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