Sixth Central Pay Commission: It’s status, not money: Navy chief

Statesman News Service

NEW DELHI, Oct. 4: A day after the three service chiefs met the external affairs minister, Mr Pranab Mukherjee, who heads a three-member ministerial committee set up by the Prime Minister to look into the anomalies of the Sixth Central Pay Commission (CPC) report, the Navy chief, Admiral Sureesh Mehta, stoked the controversy by saying it was not money, but an issue of command and control relationship between the armed forces’ officers and their civilian counterparts.
“It is about status and equivalence that existed (before the Pay Commission) and the command and control relationship (between the armed forces officers and their civilian counterparts),” Admiral Mehta, who is the chairman of the Chiefs of Staff Committee, said days after the three service chiefs refused to implement the Pay Commission report unless “anomalies” are rectified.

Ironically only yesterday, the Chief of Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal Fali Homi Major, had sought to play down the issue saying that the air warriors had no complaints as such and that they were awaiting the report of the three-member committee headed by Mr Mukherjee to give its report.

There were also reports that the three service chiefs had been pulled up for their “unprecedented defiance” over the Pay Commission report. “The issue here is not about money. It has been overplayed by the media. It is about status and equivalence...”

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