C.S. Rao is new pay panel commissioner

Hyderabad, July 7: The government has appointed Mr C.S. Rao, a retired IAS officer, as pay revision commissioner. He will submit his report to the government within a year of assuming charge. Mr Rao will be the ninth pay revision commissioner and will have the rank of chief secretary. He will recommend revised emoluments to government employees keeping in view the financial position of the government. The pay scales were last revised with effect from July 1, 2003, with monetary benefit from April 1, 2005.
The commission will cover employees of the government, local bodies, aided institutions, non-teaching staff of universities including Acharya N.G. Ranga Agricultural University, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, work-charged employees and full-time contingent employees. The PRC will also review the pension structure.
The commission will not cover teaching staff in government and government aided private colleges drawing UGC/AICTE and ICAR scales. It will also not deal with officers of the AP Higher Judicial Service and AP Judicial Service whose pay scales are recommended by the First National Judicial Pay Commission. The PRC will examine as to what extent the existing DA may be merged in pay and evolve a new set of pay scales. It will suggest the mode of fixation of pay in the revised pay scales. It will study the automatic advancement scheme in view the anomalies and examine whether it should continue in its present form. It will look into the special pay, compensatory and other allowances and perquisites in cash or kind.