The Uttarakhand finance department today said it was not in a position to concede the demand of the business community for increasing the threshold VAT limit from Rs 5 lakh to Rs 20 lakh.
The development comes a day after Chief Minister B C Khanduri assured the business community in Haldwani that he would look into their demand on sympathetic grounds, official sources said here today. (more…)
New Delhi, Nov 06: Supreme Court and High Court judges will have to wait till the next parliament sitting expected in
December to get a pay hike – a proposal which is under consideration by the Law Ministry.
“Since the higher judiciary’s emoluments can only be revised through an Act of Parliament, the government cannot do much
except for doing the ground work for the process,” said a ministry official, indicating that a final decision is yet to be
taken on the extent of pay hike for judges. (more…)
November 06, 2008
Judges in India are pretty powerful but now they want more power and status. NDTV has learnt that the Chief Justice of India (CJI) has written to the Law Minister asking for a pay hike to keep up with bureaucrats after the Sixth Pay Commission. (more…)
6 Nov, 2008
NEW DELHI: The Centre appears to be in no hurry to take a decision on the urgent request of Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishnan seeking the doubling of the monthly salaries of judges of the higher judiciary.
Concerned over the pittance of pay for the judges, a major reason for the waning attraction for leading advocates to accept posts of judges in the high courts and the Supreme Court, Justice Balakrishnan had written a letter in July this year to the law ministry pitching for a salary hike. (more…)
5 Nov 2008, 0000 hrs IST, Nalin Mehta
The hero of the Bangladesh war, Lt Gen J F R Jacob, once commented, only partly in jest, that today’s generals do not even enjoy half the authority
that he had once enjoyed as a major. The general should know, having served as an army commander and much later as a governor of Punjab and Goa. At one level, his comment was a compliment to the world’s largest democracy, one of the few post-colonial countries not to have suffered from the ignominy of a military coup. At another level it pointed to the deep well of discontent brewing within the defence forces over perceived slights by what the forces see as an uncaring and overbearing civilian bureaucracy. That wellspring of discontent is now simmering and the heavens seem to have fallen because of the service chiefs’ initial reluctance to accept the recommendations of the 6th Pay Commission. (more…)
Shimla: In the shadow of global economic uncertainties unfolding elsewhere, the state government with bated breath here awaits Punjab implementing the 6th Pay Commission recommendations as it will set back the debt trapped hill state by a whopping Rs 1500 crore.
“In a draft paper circulated at a recent meeting, Punjab declared intentions of devolving a pay package for its employees that was higher than the central pay commission recommendations,” said a senior government official on conditions of anonymity. (more…)