Sixth pay commission: Hike in pay scale, BMC employees to get richer

Sixth pay commission: Hike in pay scale, BMC employees to get richer

Mumbai, September 20 Employees of the richest municipal corporation in the country will be richer in the coming months with the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) planning to spend Rs 1000 crore on its employees. BMC— with an annual budget of Rs 16,000 crore—will make reforms in the pay scales of the employees.
Although the one lakh strong workforce of BMC does not come under the central or state government’s pay commission, the civic administration will be making reforms in the pay scale. After a series of discussions and meetings with the employees’ union, the civic body has decided to increase the pay scale applicable from April1, 2005.

Additional Municipal Commissioner Mahadeo Sangle said that each of the civic employees- from labourer to high ranking official- will be applicable for the reformed pay scale. “The rise will be from 20 per cent to 48 per cent and will be applicable from April 2005 as against the center’s sixth pay commission of January 2006,” he said. The higher salary will burden the civic body by Rs 1000 crore. “But we are ready to spend that much on our employees. Revenue from octroi will be used and adjusted to pay for the salaries,” Sangle added.

Although the reforms are yet to get the final approval, the civic administration has also proposed hike in house rent by 30 per cent. “Not everyone has a house in the city or get the provision of civic quarters. In such case we have doubled the house rent from 15 per cent to 30 per cent as the property rates in the city are also sky-rocketing,” Sangle said. The meetings with union will begin from September 22 and the reforms will be finalised in the coming days.


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