New Delhi, Oct 7 (PTI) As the controversy over armed forces’ reluctance to implement pay commission report rages, former cricketer Kapil Dev today said their grievances could have been sorted out internally and should not have come out in the open.
“If they (armed forces) have a demand, it is their internal matter and should not have come out before the common man,” Dev told reporters after donating blood at a camp organised by Territorial Army (TA) here.
The government had recently appointed Kapil Dev as an honorary Lieutenant-Colonel in the TA and named him a brand ambassador to attract new talent to the defence forces.
“Everyone wants an increase in their pay. All of us want to lead better lives,” he said to questions from reporters on what he thought about the defence personnel’s objection to the pay commission implementation.
Soon after the 6th Central Pay Commission’s report was approved by the government in late August, the chiefs of Army, Navy and Air Force had expressed their reservations over the “discriminatory” pay scales that lowered the personnel’s status vis-a-vis their civilian counterparts.
The matter snowballed into a controversy after the Services’ chiefs were reluctant to implement the Cabinet decision on the pay commission.
The government later set up a three-member ministerial committee under External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee, Defence Minister A K Antony and Finance Minister P Chidambaram to sort out the issues pointed out by the Services chiefs. PTI
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