After a seven-month-long fight demanding pay parity with their civilian counterparts, over 15,000 officers of the armed forces will take home enhanced salaries from this month.
The armed forces headquarters on Tuesday notified amended orders to place the 15,000 Army Lieutenant Colonels, IAF Wing Commanders and Navy Commanders under Pay Band-4 of the Sixth Pay Commission.
However, these officers, who form the backbone of the armed forces’ fighting units, are not “entirely” happy with the notification, citing the lower Grade Pay of Rs 8,000 accorded to them compared to Rs 8,400 to their civilian counterparts under the new pay commission that came into effect on September 1 last year.
“The amended notification for placing Lt Cols and equivalents in Pay Band-4 of the Sixth Pay Commission has been issued today,” sources in the tri-services headquarters said in
“We are not entirely happy with it, as the parity in grade pay with our civilian services counterparts is not been met, though our long wait for enhanced pay is now over,” a Lt Col-rank officer in the Services headquarters in
But, the several lakhs of jawans, who form the fighting force, are still awaiting the notification for restoration of 70 per cent pensionary weightage, a Sixth Pay Commission anomaly that all sections of the government agreed was fully justified.
Source : Hindustan Times
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Are the Lt Cols of MNS are not vulnerable to the missiles and bombs, which affect the Lt Cols of AMC working beside her? Is the record (GS), MF, APS and JAG Lt Cols are nearer to the war zone than a MNS Lt Col attached to a field ambulance? Why so much untouchability in India, when there are many Nurse Commissioned Officers Commanding Military Hospitals in US Army? Whereas the Pakistan Army had redesignated their half of MNS in 1967 to a Nurse Corps, the Indian Army wants to remove even the Commissioned Officer tag from MNS Officers? When the almost every country of the world has Nurse Corps in their armies, the Indian Army Chief is afraid that placing the Nurses on the recommended pay scale will affect the Patient Care. If Gen Kapoor is so much concerned about Patient Care why doesn’t he recommend to make the Army Act, 1950 fully applicable to the MNS cadre for better enforcement of discipline, instead of curtailing their pay? Read more http://mnscorps.blogspot.com/
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