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'It is 7th Pay Commission ! No Doubt', CM continues lie with 'JUMLA Commission' in Durga Puja season : Central-Pay-Scale dream ends for Tripura Employees
TIWN Oct 15, 2018
'It is 7th Pay Commission ! No Doubt', CM continues lie with 'JUMLA Commission' in Durga Puja season : Central-Pay-Scale dream ends for Tripura Employees
PHOTO : File Photo of Tripura CM Biplab Deb.

AGARTALA, Oct 15 (TIWN): When Tripura's State Govt employees are shocked over the "JUMLA Commission" announcement with merely 0.32 factor hike cutting all allowances and DA and Verma Committee itself has accepted that since 2014 Govt of India (Modi Govt) continued slashing of funds for Tripura resulting the State Govt could never give equal pay like centre, Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Deb said in a Durga puja pandal inauguration programme at Melaghar, "It is only and only 7th Pay Commission, there is no doubt on that. If not so how Group-C employees are getting Central Pay of Rs. 18000 per month ?" CM desperately claimed Tripura Pay Matrix 2018 as 7th Pay Commission whereas in reality, it's at least 20,000-22,000 a Group-C at Centre gets along with other benefits. Moreover, 2.57 is not workable in their case and the fixed TET teachers will get merely 600 rupees hike, whereas the new teachers will not only get 1700 rupees less than the existing teachers but Statev Govt will not give them provident funds. Most importantly employees were promised to get double salary and pay at Central scale, whereas Tripura employees got nothing. Mentioning various pending allowances and arrears (since 2016, January) and BJP's failure to implement pay hike from 2016, Biplab Deb hit the critics, "Will you give the money ? Do you have the capacity ?? So, it's 7th Pay Commission only".

However, when Chief Minister is claiming it's 7th Pay Commission, Verma Committee report has accepted that 7th Pay Commission could not be given, which was attempted by the previous Govt (CPI-M) too, but due to fundless condition both the previous and the present Govt couldn't give 7th Pay Commission. When Govt employees are frustrated, BJP's propaganda to fool rest of the masses have been continuing. 
 
Even though before the election Modi, Amit Shah propagated that 7th Pay Commission with Central PayScale to be given from March 4th and all BJP ruled states implemented 7th pay Commission, but in reality no other state could implement 7th Pay Commission as same as Centre. In case of Tripura reason behind JUMLA-Pay Commission is just vand just No-Central-Funding. From the Verma Committee report it has been learnt that due to Central deprivation and Fund crisis, Tripura BJP Govt could not allocate Central Pay scale. In Verma Committee report it has been clearly said that since 2014 fund deprivation started with Tripura and thus no Govt could implement 7th Pay Commission. Shockingly Verma Committee has said that since 2014 (Modi Govt) the funding decreased. Committee report says, "It is observed that the receipt from the Central Government started falling after 2014-15 and obviously it has severely affected the finances of the State Government. Under these circumstances the options for the State Government were limited to reduce the development expenditure and avoid any further expenditure on salaries". Thus there is no doubt that Modi Govt created economic blockade for Manik Sarkar's Govt and even after change in Govt in state nothing has been changed. 

"State's Own Revenue Receipt is about 20 % of the total receipt of the State which indicates heavy dependence on funds under Revenue Deficit Grant/ Share of Union Taxes, There is not much increase in the Non Plan Gap Grant and the FC Grant during the years 2015 to 2018", said the Committee report revealing how Tripura was fooled in taxing by the Modi Govt.

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