Government allots Rs 70,000 crore for 7th pay commission
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For the implementation of Seventh Pay Commission for government employees, the The budget, which was announced on the 29th February, did not provide an explicit overall provision number, even as the government said that the
The mere implementation of this pay commission would cost the government Rs 1.02 lakh crore.
"We have provisioned for around 60-70 per cent of the total burden that was talked about," a finance ministry official told PTI.
"We will wait to see the report of the Committee of Secretaries on the 7th Pay Commission and decide if we need further allocation," he said.
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There were doubts about the government being able to meet the fiscal deficit target of 3.9% for 2016-17, because of the burden of Pay Commission recommendations.
However, in the budget session, Finance Minister
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