Uttar Pradesh UP Sixth Pay Commission to give Salary Hike

The latest news on Sixth Pay Commission is for the Uttar Pradesh UP State Employees, who are going to benefit from the recommendations of the Sixth Pay Commission. These state government employees from Uttar Pradesh or UP will be getting the benefits of the Sixth pay Commission Panel Recommendations from 1st January 2006.

On September 5th, PTI reported that the UP government has decided to go for Pay Revision or Salary Revision as per the recommendations of the Sixth pay Commission. What this means is that the benefits will now be available to the UP state government employees.

How many UP state government employees will benefit?
It is learnt that around 98,0000 state government employees will benefit from the pay hike or salary revision.

Any exceptions to the employees?
Yes. PTI reports that employees of energy sector undertakings in state may not get the benfits of Sixth Pay Commission.

How much extra money will be required by the state and where will it come from?
Around 305 crore Rs. are required per year for this salary hike and it is expected to be sourced from the enterprises and corporations. There will be no assistance from the government side.

However, the benefits of revised pay scale and other benefits will be subject to the economic capability of corporations and certain conditions, as reported by a government spokesperson.

The government also decided to relax rules regarding payment of dearness allowance to the staff of enterprises and corporations and merge 50 per cent of the DA with the salary.
All thanks to the Sixth Pay commission recommendations and their implementations

Uttar Pradesh UP Sixth Pay Commission Salary Hike

After the recommendations of the Sixth pay Commission, many state government employees are wondering whether they are eligible to receive any hike in the salary or not and whether their respective state government will be kind enough to implement the similar things for their respective state. Here is the link to Highlights of the Sixth pay Commission Report (Opens in a new Window in PDF)

Various State Employees’ Unions have been demanding the implementation of the Sixth Pay Commission recommendations ever since the central government approved the new pay scales for its five million employees.

Fortunately, for the state of Uttar Pradesh UP, the government has given its approval to go for with the recommendations of the Sixth pay Commission.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati Monday declared in the state assembly that her government would promptly implement the recommendations of the Sixth Pay Commission.

The commission, appointed by the union government, had recently submitted its report to the central government following which it was approved by the union cabinet last week. It is learnt that it was the election year which has forced Mayawati to implement the salary hike recommondations of the the Sixth Pay Commission of the center, otherwise, it is usually a bitter relationship between Mayawati and the center.
"The new pay commission would be brought into force with effect from Dec 1 , though we would implement it with retrospect from Jan 2006", Mayawati said.

She further added: "even though the central government had been indifferent to our repeated request for additional resources and had also flatly refused to concede our demand for a special package of Rs 80000 crore, still we decided to mobilise our own resources to meet the additional burden that the new pay scales would entail."

"While the arrears were estimated at about Rs 14800 crore, the annual burden on the state exchequer would be about Rs 5200 crore", she pointed out.
Here are the direct links for the Salary Calculators on the GConnect Website, for the changes in salary by the Sixth pay Commission Report:

Salary Calculator for Pay band 1 and 2 for Sixth Pay Commission Salary Hike

Salary Calculator for Pay band 3 and above for Sixth Pay Commission Salary Hike

Salary Calculator for Pension calculations for Sixth Pay Commission Salary Hike