AIACEGEO demands for immediate Merger of Dearness Allowance with Pay Brand &Grade Pay:
On the persistent forceful demand of the different Associations of Central Government employees,
including AIACEGEO, successive Central Pay Commissions were appointed
by the Government of India with a view to improve upon wage structure
and to grant parity with other employees of the Public Sector
Undertakings in the wake of market inflation and price hike of essential
commodities. These Pay Commissions, while recommending revised pay
structure have also recommended grant of Dearness Allowance on the basis
of increase in the Price Index.
The very purpose of compensating the pay with payment of Dearness
Allowance is being defeated because of unbridled inflationary pressure
on the economy and the consequent steep rise in the price of essential
commodities.This has resulted in erosion of the value of the wage,
remarkably beyond tolerable limit, as a consequence of which, payment of
Dearness Allowance has failed to compensate devaluation of pay.
While Dearness Allowance was merged with the pay on crossing the
percentage beyond 50% during 5th CPC as the actual value of wage
devaluated because of market hike to compensate eroded value of the
wages besides payment of Dearness Allowance, but this time Dearness
Allowance, which has already gone beyond 90% w.e.f. 1st July, 2013, is
yet to be merged with the pay.
Therefore the Dearness Allowance is required to be merged immediately with the pay for all purposes to
compensate the erosion in the wage in the wake of market inflation and
steep price hike of essential commodities which are posing serious
constraints in the livelihood of the Government employees in general and the Superintendents of Central Excise in particular.