The
truth needs to be known to all as to how the AF officers were cheated by an act
of commission/ommission which resulted in down gradation of the AF cadre and
lower pay and allowances. The revealations will be in two/three parts in Q/A
form.
Q: Did you
get rank pay at IV & V CPC in real terms?
A: NO. What
appears as ‘rank pay’ is notional even after the partial implementation of SC
order by UOI/MoD.
Q. What has
CDAO paid now after the SC judgment?
A. CDA(O) Pune has only paid the difference of total emoluments which u were paid (drawn)
and what you should have got (Due) without deduction of rank pay. By
so doing it has also violated the instruction of MoD which said that the
minimum initial pay for each rank be refixed without deduction of rank pay in
terms of para 6(a)(ii) of SAI of 1987 as per their own letter of 27 Dec 2012.
Q. For a moment let us presume that if no rank
pay was granted what would then be the scales of offrs when migrating from III
CPC to IV CPC equivalent to civ scales?
A: The
equivalent civ scales would have been: Capt 3000-100-3600; Major
4100-125-4850-150-5300; Lt Col 4800-150-5700, Col 5100-150-5700; Brig
5900-200-6700. Rank pay would then have been over and above the revised scales
at the recommended scales of IV CPC. The edge given to armed forces officers in
their pay scales as compared to civ offrs was due to ‘Special Disturbance
Allowance’ which existed before III CPC and continued thereafter.
Q. How the
scales were manipulated to form integrated scale of 2300-100-3900-150-4200-EB—150-5100?
A. Documentary
evidence exists with RDOA that:
In the integrated pay scales for each rank
there was a minimum pay fixed for separate ranks. This minimum was arrived at
after deduction of rank pay. So then we have
as per para 6 (a)(ii) of SAI of 1987 the minimum for each rank as:
Capt
3000(2800+RP200);
Major
4000(3400+RP600);
Lt
Col 4700 (3900+RP800);
Col
5500 (4500+RP1000);
Brig
6150 (4950+RP 1200).
So in
real terms you never got rank pay.
Your
scale was divided into two components of basic pay plus rank pay. As per para
8.65 of IV CPC Report Civs who were in Senior Adm Grade II & I (SAG) at
3CPC were upgraded and given the scale of 5900-200-6700; but this was
not extended to the Armed Forces. So Col and Brig got clubbed in the same scale
of SAG II. Had that been given then Brig would have started at 5900-200-6700. These
depressed scales by an amount equal to rank pay got carried fwd to V CPC and
then on to VI CPC reducing the pay scales and status of AF officers vis a vis
civ counterparts.
The entire integrated scale was compressed for
offrs from Capt to Brig in the equivalent civil scale of JTS starting with
3000-100-3500-125-5000 which was improved by the Pay commission to 5100 with
rank pay to be paid in addition at the recommended rates.
Q. What
then should be the correct integrated scale from the rank
of Capt to Brig?
A. The integrated scale after refixation of initial
pay in terms of para 6(a)(ii) would also get modified to the extent of adding
Rs 200 at start of scale of Capt and Rs 1200 at top of integrated scale
equivalent to the deducted rank pay as given:
Existing: 2300-100-3900-150-4200
EB-150-5100
Revised: 2300-100-3900-150-5850-200-6300
Q. What the SC order says?
A. The Hon’ble Supreme Court in its
order of 04 Sept 2012 corrected this grave anomaly. The judgment very clearly
stipulated that the pay of all officers be refixed from 01/01/86 without
deduction of rank pay.
So where ever deduction of rank pay is
involved it has to be restored back. CDA(O) has only calculated the total emoluments
without deduction of rank pay but has left out the refixation in terms of para
6 (a) (ii) which is affecting all officers whether pre 86/as on 1/1/86 or
promoted after 1/1/86 and then on to V & VI CPC.
Q. What
should be the correct refixation without deduction of rank pay?
A. To
take an example, for the Major and Major(SG) that existed before IV CPC, the
nearest civil eqvts were the Comdt and Comdt(SG) of the CG/BSF etc, though the
CG being relatively new did not have Comdt(SG) at the time.
The
Civil Services also had JAG (Dy Secy) and JAG(SG)/Director. But JAG (9 yrs) did
not correspond with Maj/Comdt(11 yrs) but all SG levels became the same when
the CPC instituted uniform progression to SG level at 14 years.
The
post IV CPC scales of Comdt and Comdt(SG) started at 4100 and 4500
respectively. This is where the Maj/Maj(SG) would have started if we had not
gone into the convulsions of integrated scale, RP etc.
Now the CDA calculation says minimum for
Major (11 yrs) is 3600, less than the start of JAG/Dy Secy (3700) at 9 yrs. It
cannot by any stretch be less than 3700/- plus two increments.
The V CPC Anomalies reports(High Level Committee and Group of Officers) had also
already accepted and implemented 14300/- min(replacement of the IV CPC 4500/-)
for Major at 14 years and now they are saying 13500/- for Lt Col instead of a
few increments over 14300/-.
After
due modification in terms of para 6(a)(ii), the revised initial fixation of pay
in the integrated scale for officers from the rank of Captain to Brig &
equivalent would be as shown.
|
Rank
|
Reckonable yrs of service for pay
|
Existing Initial Pay as per SAI of 87
|
Revised Initial Pay w/o deduction of rank pay
|
Rank pay
|
Total pay
(Rs Pm)
|
|
Captain
|
5
|
2800
|
3000
|
200
|
3200
|
|
Major
|
11
|
3400
|
4050
|
600
|
4650
|
|
Lt Colonel
|
16
|
3900
|
4800
|
800
|
5600
|
|
Colonel
|
20
|
4500
|
5550
|
1000
|
6550
|
|
Brigadier
|
23
|
4950
|
5900
|
1200
|
7100
|
Once the minimum basic pay changes, the pension of
all pre 1986 officers as well as those who got promoted after 1/1/86 would also
change.
Concluded
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