Composition of 7th Central Pay Commission - PM has approved the composition of 7th CPC under the Chairmanship of Justice Ashok Kumar Mathur

The Hon'ble Finance Minister Shri P. Chidambaram has issued the following statement:

The Prime Minister has approved the composition of the 7th Central Pay Commission as follows:

1. Shri Justice Ashok Kumar Mathur - Chairman

(Retired Judge of the Supreme Court and Retired Chairman, Armed Forces Tribunal)

2. Shri Vivek Rae - Member (Full Time), Secretary, Petroleum & Natural Gas. 

3. Dr. Rathin Roy - Member (Part Time), Director, NIPEP.  

4. Smt. Meena Agarwal - Secretary, OSD, Department of Expenditure, Ministry of Finance. 

To read PIB press note, please CLICK HERE. 

DA will be increased by 10 % from January -2014

Expected DA from January 2014 - AICPIN for the month of December 2013 : All-India CPI-IW for December, 2013 declined by 4 points and pegged at 239 (two hundred and thirty nine).

As per the press release of Labour Bureau the Consumer Price Index(IW) fell down by four points from the existing level of 243 and now it stands at 239. However the percentage of additional dearness allowance for Central Government employees and Pensioners from January 2014 will be 10% and the total dearness allowance will become 100%.

The press release said that the percentage contribution of food group is declaimed by 4.96 and the inflation also downward pressure to 9.13 per cent against compare with the previous month of 11.47 per cent.

Most of the Central employees are excepted the index will go higher than three percent, because of the additional dearness allowance will climb to 11%.

But it happened in reverse direction, declined by four points. However the balance percentage will be added in the next dearness allowance calculation.

And now started to expect next installment of additional dearness allowance from July 2014. Although it is too early to predict, the percentage of additional DA from July 2014 will be minimum 7%.

Declaration of result of LDCE for promotion to the cadre of Postmaster Grade-I held on 30/6/2013

To view the copy of result, please CLICK HERE.