The All-India Kendriya Vidyalaya Teachers Association has urged the Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangatan to release the salary arrears immediately. The Association said in a statement that the sixth Pay Commission was implemented from September 2008 in all Central Government Departments and 40 percent arrears in salary dues and other benefits were paid ...

As per the recent orders issued by DOPT, Government has decided to set up Anomaly Committee to settle the Anomalies arising out of the implementation of the Sixth Pay Commission's recommendations.  The panel will receive anomalies upto six months from the date of its constitution and will dispose them within ...

In a major New year bonanza for the armed forces, the Prime Minister's Office has informed the Defence Ministry that the armed forces personnel would henceforth have a separate pay commission, which is delinked from the civilian pay panel. In a communication to the Defence Ministry the PMO also granted the ...

It's a New Year cheer for the armed forces with the Government agreeing to increase the salaries of Lt Colonel and equivalent by upgrading their pay band and hiking their grade pay. Sources said Prime Minister's Office has told the Defence Ministry that the armed forces’ proposal for an increase in ...

Rejecting a long-standing demand of ex-servicemen, the government today said it was not contemplating providing "one rank-one pension" to similarly placed officers and jawans after their retirement. Replying to a question in the Lok Sabha, Minister of State for Defence M M Pallam Raju said the demand was "not found acceptable" ...

With the armed forces insisting on a pay hike, the government has said it is "very difficult" to maintain a balance in salaries of government servants doing varied jobs. "It is a very difficult exercise. Because it is not just a question of ensuring that people get better salaries. It is ...

A seemingly contradictory statement that may nonetheless be true.  The greater the military’s involvement in national security and contribution in the management of national crises, the greater its alienation with the nation’s governing apparatus and those who exercise influence over it. The point is best illustrated by the fallout of ...

With a ministerial committee set up to resolve the four pay commission issues delaying a decision, the Armed Forces have strongly conveyed to the government that there should be “no dilution” on their demands concerning their officers and jawans. “We have re-conveyed to the government that there should be no dilution ...

The plan of the higher judiciary for a three-fold-plus hike in salaries of members of the higher judiciary has not found favour with the Union Finance Ministry. According to sources in the Finance Ministry, it has recommended a cut in the salary structure proposed by a three-judge committee constituted by the ...

The Indian Institute of Management-Bangalore one of the best business schools in the country but it seems, no one wants to work there. The institute aims at hiring 40 more faculty members by 2012. But over the last year-and-a-half, they've managed to recruit just six. Some IIMs have complained to the HRD ...