Chennai: Tamil Nadu Bharatiya Janata Party president K. Annamalai on Monday said that actor-turned-politician and BJP national executive member, Khushbu Sundar has been nominated as a member of the National Commission for Women.
The order issued by the NCW Director said that the nomination is for a period of three years from the date of assumption of charge or till the age of 65 years, whichever is earlier.
Annamalai in a tweet congratulated Khushbu on her nomination for the post of NCW member.
He said: “It is a recognition of her relentless pursuit and fight for women’s rights!”
Khushbu in her response said that Annamalai has always been a great encouragement to her.
Khushbu has been in the news for her outbursts against rival political leaders.
8th Pay Commission: There is good news for central employees. After the Seventh Pay Commission, now the government can soon constitute the Eighth Pay Commission. Let’s know the complete details about it.
These days more than one crore central employees and pensioners are eagerly waiting for the announcement of increase in dearness allowance and dearness relief. If everything goes well, this hike will be announced soon i.e. before Holi.
On the basis of the AICPI data released by the Ministry of Labour, it is being estimated that this time also there may be an increase of 4 percent in the dearness allowance. If this happens, the dearness allowance of central employees will increase from the current 38 to 42 per cent.
8th pay commission may be announced before general elections
Meanwhile, once again the discussions regarding the 8th Pay Commission have intensified. If experts are to be believed, general elections are to be held in the country in 2024. In such a situation, before this, the government can give a big gift of the Eighth Pay Commission to the employees. If sources are to be believed, the Central Government may introduce the Eighth Pay Commission in 2024.
And to implement it, its Pay Commission can also be formed. After this it can be implemented in 2026. However, at present no proposal of any kind has been presented by the Central Government regarding the Eighth Pay Commission.
Demand for 8th Pay Commission intensified
Central employees demanding the 8th Pay Commission say that they are getting less salary than what was recommended in the 7th Pay Commission. Meanwhile, the employees unions are preparing for a countrywide movement to press for their demands.
The union says that the government should clear the situation as soon as possible. At the same time, the government has categorically denied any idea on the subject of implementing the 8th pay scale in the House. Union Minister of State for Finance Pankaj Chowdhury has mentioned this in Parliament as well.
Minimum salary Rs 26,000
It is being told that if everything goes well, the 8th Pay Commission can be planned in the next year 2024. If this happens then there can be a tremendous increase in his salary. According to reports, the minimum pay of government employees will increase from Rs 18,000 to Rs 26,000 if the employees union’s proposal is approved under the 8th Pay Commission. And the fitment factor will increase up to 3.68 times.
8th pay commission recommendations may be implemented in 2026
Let us tell you that the Pay Commission for the employees is implemented only once in every ten years. The same pattern has been seen in the implementation of 5th, 6th and 7th pay commissions. According to an estimate, the 8th Pay Commission will be set up in the year 2024 and whose recommendations can be implemented in 2026.
Will the government end the pay commission?
Along with this, news is also coming that after the 7th Pay Commission, its tradition will end. That is, after the 7th Pay Commission, no new Pay Commission will come next.
Instead, the government can implement an automatic increment system. In this, the salary hike of government employees will be done automatically. It can be like increment in private jobs. If there is more than 50 percent DA in this, there will be an automatic revision in the salary.
Mumbai: In a mix-up that perhaps showed what is on his mind, Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Wednesday said his government had asked the “Election Commission” to defer the implementation of the new exam pattern of the Maharashtra Public Service Commission (MPSC).
He, obviously, meant to say that the government had written about the students’ demand to the MPSC which conducts competitive exams for various government posts.
A section of students has been demanding that the MPSC should implement its new exam pattern from 2025 and not this year. “We agree with the demands of students aspiring to appear for the Maharashtra Public Service Commission examinations,” Shinde told reporters.
But then he said that the government had conveyed this stand “to the election commission” and “a positive decision is expected from the election commission.”
The EC recently recognized the Shinde faction as the real Shiv Sena and allotted it the party’s bow and arrow symbol in a setback to the Uddhav Thackeray group.
The Supreme Court is also hearing various petitions related to the tussle between the Shinde and Uddhav Thackeray factions of the party.
Hyderabad: The Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) on Wednesday approached the State Human Rights Commission seeking immediate directions to the government for taking action against dog menace.
Following the gruesome incident of a pack of stray dogs attacking and killing a four-year-old boy in Amberpet on February 19, the Congress leaders demanded stringent action against Telangana government, the state’s Minister for Municipal Administration, Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) Commissioner and GHMC Mayor alleging human rights violations and sought immediate directions to the state administration to take measures.
In a complaint filed with the Telangana State Human Rights Commission (TSHRC), the TPCC leaders said stray dogs were attacking people in the twin cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad, especially children and elderly, and mentioned the incident of the four-year-old boy, who was mauled to death by street dogs.
The incident sent shock waves after a video of it went viral on Tuesday.
The TPCC leaders accused the Telangana government representatives of responding in a most irresponsible manner by allegedly making statements disregarding the human rights of citizens of Hyderabad.
“Municipal Administration Minister K T Rama Rao claimed that dog population must be artificially controlled, which ridicules his own incompetency and inefficiency. It is the minister himself who is responsible for the control of dog menace in the state,” they said.
The Congress leaders further said GHMC Mayor Gadwal Vijayalakshmi blamed the dogs that were hungry for attacking the citizens. It is the job of the mayor to safeguard the lives of citizens and to control dog menace, they said and also urged financial assistance to be provided to the family of the deceased boy.
TPCC President and party MP A Revanth Reddy also attacked the BRS government over the incident and alleged that Rama Rao miserably failed in discharging his duties as a Municipal Administration minister.
“A four-year-old boy has been mauled to death by stray dogs in Hyderabad. You say sorry to the boy’s family while the Mayor maintains that the stray dogs (which attacked the dogs) were hungry. This is the most inhuman government. How could the minister justify about portraying Hyderabad as a global city when these kind of incidents are occurring,” Reddy said.
In another incident of street dogs attacking children reported from the city, a four-year-old boy playing outside his house in Chaitanyapuri on Wednesday was bitten by stray dogs, following which he suffered bleeding injuries, according to his mother.
The boy’s mother told media that four-five dogs chased three children and attacked her son resulting in scratches and bleeding injuries to him and he was taken to hospital for treatment.
She said her neighbours were feeding the stray dogs despite objections. “Earlier also, stray dogs attacked the locals and complaints were made to municipal authorities then and they caught the dogs. But the neighbours, who were feeding them got these dogs released and they are attacking the children,” the woman claimed.
Mumbai: In a stunning statement, Shiv Sena-UBT President and former Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Monday said the party name-symbol verdict of Election Commission was “unacceptable” and demanded that the poll panel must be “disbanded”.
Thackeray’s shocker came at a media conference when he termed the EC ruling of last Friday as “incorrect” and said his party has challenged it in the Supreme Court, while apprehending a “dictatorship” in the country after 2024.
“Such undemocratic decisions cannot be made on the basis of money power… It’s an unconstitutional verdict. We demand that the ECI should be dissolved, an impartial EC should be elected like the judges, and till then its work should be handled by the Supreme Court,” roared Thackeray.
He sought for the need to “elect” and not “appoint” election commissioners with a proper procedure, on the lines of the procedures of appointing judges in the Supreme Court.
Thackeray warned that if the scenario is not halted, then the 2024 elections may be the last in the country and after that anarchy will begin, and called upon all parties to remain vigilant.
He termed the latest political developments as the Bharatiya Janata Party’s strategy to systematically destroy the Shiv Sena for which it had contracted (Chief Minister) Eknath Shinde.
Last Friday, the EC had declared the faction led by CM Shinde as the “real” one and awarded it the original party’s name Shiv Sena and election symbol of bow and arrow, sparking howls of protests from the Thackeray side.
Questioning the haste in the matter, Thackeray pointed out that his group had requested the EC to defer its ruling till the matter of suspended MLAs is pending in the SC.
If the EC wanted to select who would get the party name-symbol on the basis of their legislative strength, “then why did they ask for affidavits, certificates and other documents for which we spent lakhs of rupees”, he said, adding that they should have taken into consideration the timeline of the chain of events in the matter.
“Everything has been stolen from us… The name and symbol of our party, even the (temporary) symbol of ‘Flaming Torch’ may be snatched, but they cannot steal the name Thackeray. We have challenged the EC ruling in the SC and the matter will come up tomorrow (Febeuary 21),” said Thackeray.
After the EC’s order, a livid Sena-UBT chief spokesperson and MP Sanjay Raut claimed on Sunday that an amount of over Rs 2,000 crore was spent to grab the party’s name-symbol and has threatened to make more exposes on this in the coming days.
Thackeray held discussions with his top leaders and district party heads to decide the future course of action, the upcoming Budget Session of Maharashtra Legislature, the upcoming cases in the SC, etc., even as his party units protested in different parts of the state against the EC.
8th Pay Commission: Employees across the country are preparing to shout about the 8th Pay Commission. But, there is good news waiting for the central employees.
All the ways of the 8th Pay Commission are not closed yet. There is still hope and the discussion is that after the general elections of 2024, the government can also put it into practice. Means new pay commission can be formed. Salary will continue to increase with dearness allowance. But, salary revision will happen only at the time of 8th Pay Commission.
The great thing is that this increase in 2024 or rather in the 8th Pay Commission can be bigger than the increase in the 6th Pay Commission.
Tremendous benefits will be available in 8th Pay Commission
If sources are to be believed then only after the general elections in the year 2024, there will be any discussion on the formation of new pay commission. But, it is certain that the matter is moving forward. However, in the meantime, the movement of employee unions and many organizations is also moving forward.
Preparations for the nationwide movement have intensified. The union has also warned that the government will have to clear the situation on this. According to the government machinery, there is currently no proposal on the 8th Pay Commission. Union Minister of State for Finance has also mentioned this in the Parliament.
But, the sources of the government departments tell that the time has not yet come for the formation of the Pay Commission. Its deadline will start in the year 2024. After the general elections of 2024, when the new government is formed, a decision will be taken on this.
When can the new pay commission be implemented?
If the 8th Pay Commission is formed by the end of the year 2024, then it will have to be implemented in the next two years. Means the situation can be implemented from 2026. If this happens then it will be the biggest salary hike for the central government employees. According to the sources, according to the 7th Pay Commission, there can be many changes in the 8th Pay Commission. The constitution of the Pay Commission can also be changed once in 10 years.
8th pay commission: Salary will change every year?
After the formation of the 7th Pay Commission, there was the least increase in the minimum salary of central employees. Actually, the salary was increased according to the Fitment Factor. In this it was kept 2.57 times. With this, the basic salary was increased to Rs 18,000.
If this formula is considered as the basis, then the minimum salary will be Rs.26000 under the maximum range of fitment factor in the 8th Pay Commission. After this, salary revision of lower level employees can be done every year on performance basis. At the same time, revision of employees with maximum salary can be kept at an interval of 3 years.
When and how much did the salary of the employees increase?
Salary hike of central employees in 4th Pay Commission: 27.6% done. In this, his minimum pay scale was fixed at Rs.750.
In the 5th Pay Commission, the employees got a big gift and their salary was increased by 31%. Due to this, his minimum wage directly increased to Rs.2550 per month.
The fitment factor was implemented in the 6th Pay Commission. This was kept at 1.86 times at that time. Due to this, the employees got the biggest hike in salary. There was an increase of 54% in his minimum salary. Due to this the basic salary increased to Rs.7000.
In the year 2014, 7th Pay Commission was formed. Considering the fitment factor as the base, an increase of 2.57 times was made. But, the increment that happened was only 14.29%.
Estimated increase in 8th Pay Commission?
Now after the formation of the 8th Pay Commission, if the government keeps the salary revision on the old scale, then the fitment factor will be considered as the basis in this too. On this basis, the fitment of the employees can be done 3.68 times. On this basis, there can be an increase of 44.44% in the minimum wage of the employees. With this, the minimum salary of the employees can be Rs 26000.
Will 8th Pay Commission come or not?
Now the question is when will the 8th Pay Commission be formed? At present there is no such proposal. Minister of State for Finance Pankaj Chowdhary also categorically denied this in the Lok Sabha. However, if sources are to be believed, the Pay Commission will be formed when the time comes.
But, now the government has time to consider the new scale of salary hike. That’s why ways are being searched for this. Experts believe that general elections are to be held in the year 2024. In such a situation, the government would not want to anger the employees. But, it is not correct to say that the next pay commission will not come.
Bengaluru: Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Friday said Rs 6,000 crore has been earmarked for the implementation of the 7th Pay Commission report.
The report would be submitted by a committee headed by former chief secretary Sudhakar Rao regarding the revision of the salaries of state government employees.
Talking to reporters after presenting the budget for FY 2023-24 here on Friday, he said any additional amount required for the implementation will be provided in the supplementary budget.
The reports of the pay commission will be implemented from FY 2023-24.
“Whether the committee presents its interim or final report, the state government will take immediate action. Since the grants have been reserved in the budget, there will be no problem with the implementation,” he said.
New Delhi: The Election Commission on Friday recognised the Eknath Shinde-led faction as the real Shiv Sena and ordered allocation of the “bow and arrow” poll symbol to it.
In a 78-page order on the protracted battle for control of the organisation, the Commission allowed the Uddhav Thackeray faction to keep the “flaming torch” poll symbol allocated to it till the completion of the assembly bypolls in the state.
The Commission said MLAs backing Eknath Shinde got nearly 76 percent of votes polled in favour of the 55 winning Shiv Sena candidates in the 2019 Maharashtra Assembly polls.
The Uddhav Thackeray faction’s MLAs got 23.5 percent of votes polled in favour of the winning Shiv Sena candidates, the three-member Commission said in a unanimous order.
Chennai: The AIADMK on Wednesday alleged that the Election Commission is acting like DMK’s poll wing and that the police and all other departments are under the control of the DMK.
AIADMK MP CVe Shanmugham alleged that the DMK had erected temporary sheds at all the booth areas in East Erode — where Assembly bypoll will be held on February 27 — and voters are confined in these sheds all through the day. He also claimed that food is being served to the voters along distribution of cash.
AIADMK leaders are being prevented from meeting the voters, he claimed.
Shanmugham also demanded that the Chief Electoral Officer and the District Election officer should intervene and get the people released.
Shanmugham, who was the Law Minister in the previous AIADMK government, said that party leaders and functionaries are being intercepted by the police under the guise of vehicle checks.
He claimed the police are doing this deliberately to prevent the crowd from gathering at the public rallies of AIADMK interim General Secretary, Edappadi K. Palaniswami.
The European Commission is taking Poland to court over rulings from Polish judges considered by experts as a “legal Polexit” that fundamentally undermine the EU’s legal order.
The decision to refer Poland to the European court of justice on Wednesday – described by one expert as a bombshell – comes as Poland’s rightwing nationalist government battles to secure €35.4bn (£31.4bn) in EU Covid recovery funds that have been frozen over concerns about government-influenced courts.
The latest legal step ratchets up pressure on the Polish government, which faces elections this autumn and has been struggling to convince EU authorities to release billions of grants and loans.
The EU’s legal case is a response to a July 2021 decision by Poland’s constitutional tribunal that declared measures imposed by the ECJ unconstitutional, a fundamental breach of the principle of the supremacy of EU law, which Warsaw signed up to when it became an member state.
Legal experts have described the July 2021 decision as “legal Polexit” that could indicate a first step towards Poland’s departure from the union, despite opinion polls showing the popularity of the EU across the country.
The commission opened legal action against Poland in December 2021, but has only now decided to refer Warsaw to the ECJ, after more than a year of fruitless discussions.
Announcing the decision on Wednesday, the commission said Poland’s constitutional court had violated EU law and the government had failed to address its concerns.
“Everyone in the EU should enjoy the fundamental principles and the rights of the EU legal order, including the right to a court that is independent under EU law,” tweeted the EU justice commissioner, Didier Reynders.
The dispute over the rule of law dates back to the return to power of Poland’s nationalist Law and Justice party in 2015, when it began installing loyalists in the courts. EU officials believe Poland’s constitutional tribunal is no longer an independent and impartial court, owing to “irregularities” in the appointment of its president and senior judges.
As a result of concerns over the independence of Polish courts, the commission has withheld €35.4bn in recovery grants and loans, pending reforms to Poland’s judicial system. The head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, has laid down three conditions for releasing the funds: dismantling a disciplinary chamber for judges within Poland’s supreme court; changing the judicial disciplinary system; and reinstating judges suspended under current rules.
But Poland’s government – divided between moderate forces desperate for EU funds and hardliners who oppose backing down – has so far been unable to agree reforms that meet the EU conditions.
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Adding to the uncertainty, Poland’s president, Andrzej Duda, last week refused to sign a key judicial reform bill the government had hoped would meet EU tests and unlock the funds. Duda referred the bill to Poland’s controversial constitutional tribunal for a ruling on its compatibility with Poland’s constitution.
Jakub Jaraczewski, a researcher at the Berlin-based NGO, Democracy Reporting International, described the commission’s latest legal step as a bombshell, while also criticising the EU executive for acting too slowly.
He highlighted the widespread view that Poland’s staunch support for Ukraine and help for millions of Ukrainian refugees may have slowed down the commission’s response. “Yes, I know, war, tanks, Poland first to fight, how much you can pile on a country that carries so much weight right now,” he wrote on Twitter. “But Russia will be defeated and the Polish rule of law problem won’t go away with that. So, great that this is happening, but it could have been sooner.”
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( With inputs from : www.theguardian.com )
