February 3, 2016 6:54 AM

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Service chiefs meet Parrikar, discuss Pay Commission report

Three Service Chiefs met Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar yesterday and discussed issues related to anamolies and shortcomings in the 7th Pay Commission report. Concerned over increasing pay disparity between defence personnel and their civilian counterparts, the service chiefs had earlier written to Mr Parrikar highlighting various aspects of the Pay Commission report. <br/><br/>Defence sources said, the three Chiefs had detailed, comprehensive and constructive discussion on the issue. The sources said, armed forces' personnel are of the view that if the Pay Commission report is implemented in its present form, it will position them much below their civilian counterparts in terms of salaries, facilities and status.<br/><br/>Besides, having discussions on the 7th Pay Commission, the chiefs and the Defence Minister also held deliberations on the issue of One-Rank-One-Pension (OROP). The government had recently set up a 13-member Empowered Committee of Secretaries (CoS) headed by the Cabinet Secretary for processing the recommendations of the 7th Central Pay Commission, which has bearing on remuneration of 47 lakh central government employees and 52 lakh pensioners.

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