7th pay panel implementation after Sawant committee report

The government is working to increase child sex ratio and has also initiated many innovations such as Raj Shri scheme, transport vouchers etc.

The state government on Wednesday informed the house that the recommendations of the seventh pay commission will be implemented after a committee headed by retired IAS DC Samant submits his report.

Addressing the house during the question hour, state industries minister Rajpal Singh Shekhawat said that the state government is aware of the employees’ rights. The government had constituted a committee to provide benefits of the seventh pay commission. A decision will be taken once the committee submits its report. He was replying to a question raised by BJP MLA Sandeep Sharma on behalf of the finance minister.

He said the chief minister, who heads the finance department, in her previous budget speech had announced that the state government has submitted its report to the centre, which had constituted the seventh pay commission for salary revision of central government employees. For the implementation of the commission’s recommendation, the state has constituted a committee.

“In state, salary is not always decided on the basis of the commission’s recommendations. In 1986, for the first time salary of the employees were decided on the basis of 4th pay commission’s recommendations. For the first time during the sixth pay commission salaries were based on the pay scale, running pay band and grade pay. In order to reduce salary anomalies the committee is constituted,” he said.

In reply to a supplementary question raised by Sharma, he said that for implementation of the commission’s recommendation it is not necessary to have a provision in the budget - it has been a tradition to deal with it through supplementary demand. “The fifth pay commission had increased establishment expenditure on states because of which fewer people were recruited from 1998 to 2006,” he informed. State health minister Kali Charan Saraf informed the house that the sex ratio in Rajasthan is increasing every year. In 2011, there were 888 girls per 1000 boys, which might reach 930 -935 girls every 1000 boys by 2021. “The government is working to increase the child sex ratio,” he said.

He said since 2014, 145 cases have been lodged under PCPNDT act and 202 persons have been arrested, which includes 125 doctors and 77 middlemen. “The government has initiated many innovations such as Raj Shri scheme where ₹50,000 is given to every newborn girl in six instalments, transport vouchers, Gargi award, scooty scheme, self-defense training etc.”

In order to curb child sex determination, he said from January 2014 to December 2016 – 520 sonography centres were registered, 4,750 centres were inspected, 39 centres suspended, 76 registration were cancelled and 91 sonography machines were seized. He added that 63 cases were filed in court, 108 accused were convicted and 21 doctors registration was cancelled. State disaster management and relief department minister Gulab Chand Kataria informed that house that ₹48.60 crore grants were distributed online to 65,879 farmers who suffered crop losses due to excessive rain and hail storms.