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The Armed Forces are furious over the government’s inaction to revise of the clauses of sixth pay commission report that are related to armed forces. The armed forces have refused to accept the sixth pay commission report after their demands were rejected by the government.

Due to the strong negative feelings of the armed forces against the 6th Pay commission’s recommendation for the Armed Forces, Prime Minister Mr. Manmoham Singh has set up a committee to look into the matter. This committee, which includes the defense minister Pranab Mukherjee, is set up to propose a 40 to 60 per cent increase over and above the hike suggested by the panel. The committee will look into “anomalies” in the notification of new pay scales for the armed forces by the 6th Pay Commission. It is expected to submit its report by the end of October.

The government has announced ad hoc payment of arrears to all ranks. These range from Rs 25,000 for jawans to Rs 50,000 for subedar-majors. Lieutenants can expect Rs 55,000 and Lt-Generals Rs 2.25 lakh.

The major reason for not accepting the Six pay commission’s report is that while the Lt-Colonel rank officers have been lowered by retaining them in Pay Band-3 (Rs 15,600-39,100), the civilians and paramilitary officers have been raised to level PB-4 (Rs 37,400-67,000).

Demand of Defense forces is to renew the parity of grade pay for lower and middle rung Service officers with their civilian counterparts, who are going to get more as per the new pay scales. Then, of course, the armed forces are also angry that all director-generals of police and their equivalents have been placed over Lt-Generals by the creation of a new “higher administrative grade-plus”.