Aizawl, June 26, 2007: Mizoram will not implement the recommendations of the Mizoram Pay Commission 2005, following a directive from the Planning Commission.
Personnel and administrative reforms minister Tawnluia told representatives of groups A, B, C and D and the Central Pay Demand Committee yesterday that the Planning Commission had forbidden the implementation of recommendations made by any state pay commission, following the constitution of the central sixth Pay Commission. The minister appealed to the employees to refrain from agitation, assuring that the government would ensure that employees got satisfactory pay, a source said.
“Unless we receive word from the government that our demands will be met, the A, B, C, D groups’ meeting slated for tomorrow will not be cancelled,” Group A co-ordination committee chairperson M. Zohmingthangi said.
Zohmingthangi said one of their demands had been met with the Centre prohibiting the implementation of the pay commission’s recommendations, adding that it was upto the state to fulfil the other four.
One of these demands stems from the payscale decided for the principal director of health services.
“The government’s intention to offer very high pay to the principal director can cause disparity with, for instance, the engineer-in-chief, whose pay is not more than that of a chief engineer. The engineer-in-chief gets only Rs 500 more as special pay, accorded because of the post itself. In the first place, we believe it is unnecessary for the health services department to have a principal director. But we would not make too much noise if the kind of pay the engineer-in-chief gets is offered to the principal director too,” Zohmingthangi said.
Tawnluia will meet representatives of the Mizoram Engineering Service Association and Mizoram Government Doctors Association today to discuss pay parity.
Source: The Telegraph
