From: Vinay Kulkarni
C/o D. Shantilal Jain & Co.
Chartered Accountants
Coen Road, Hubli-580020
St: Karnataka
Mail: vinayk74@rediffmail.com
Mobile: 9880057827
To,
Their Lordships
The Supreme Court of India
New Delhi
Respected Sir,
Sub: Public Interest Litigation. Regarding
Ref: Seventh Pay Commission constituted by The Government of India.
As a citizen of India, more popularly known as Common Man, we wish to bring to your kind notice the following:
Government of India, which exists in letter for the welfare of COMMON MAN, has constituted seventh pay commission. The commission is expected to give its recommendations by the end of September 2015. The impact of the same on Government finances is not yet quantifiable. However it will be a fact that the burden of seventh pay commission will be heavy one. In such situation as a common man our worry is who is going to pay for this? As it is Governments revenue deficit is Rs. 3,94,942.02 crores ( Budget Estimates 2015-16. Indiabudget.nic.in) which is 71.07% of fiscal deficit of Rs.5,55,649 crores. (Budget Estimates 2015-16. Indiabudget.nic.in) This means govt is borrowing to meet its revenue expenditures and not to build assets. As per Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Act, 2003, revenue deficit should have been 0(Zero) by the end of financial year 2008-09 itself.
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As a common man still we are grappling with, why sixth pay commission recommended such a huge hike in salary across the board without going into the merits and contributions made by the recipients of the bonanza to the economy and society as a whole. 14th pay commission has observed in its report dated 24/02/2015 on this as follows
“As a result of recommendations of sixth pay commission, pay and allowances of the Union Government Employees more than doubled between 2007-08 and 2011-12 from Rs.74,647/- crores to Rs.1,66,792 crores.” And this does not include, in our understanding, the Grant Given to UGC, salaries of Government Companies etc. My lord, Governments’ financial position is under severe stress. In such situation it is totally unwarranted to appoint Seventh Pay Commission. Infact, Government should have appointed a commission to look into wasteful revenue expenditure for eliminating the same.
We are not against increasing the salary. But it should be within the limits of Government revenue. Common Man should not be forced to pay for it through raise in indirect tax rates or by any other mode. Whatever may be the Governments’ Financial position; we are not against raising the salary of defence and police personnel i.e who are providing us external security and internal security.
As a matter of common sense, revenue/ fiscal deficit will fuel the inflation. Inflation will make the life of majority of Indians miserable one. Instead of fuelling the inflation, the Government should live within its means. Otherwise, we the common people of India will be watching the cruel joke heaped on us by way of increased taxes for pleasure of bubus/ministers etc through their salary hike, allowances, retirement benefits, foreign trips etc. Increased taxes coupled with inflation will be too heavy for common man to bear. Your honour we wish to bring to your kind notice the following fact:
Total strength of central govt employees as per 2011 census is 31.16 lakhs. (as per All India RMS and MMS Employees Union Group ‘C’ data). And The Indian Express dated 09/12/2014 reports that, 43 percent of government employees don’t have perks of government job. Former expenditure secretary in Finance Ministry and architect of sixth pay commission, Sushma Nath, said fiscal deficit constraints were one of the reasons why state governments increased their temporary staff strength. The combined reading of both suggests that, the Government itself is admitting that, it cannot afford to pay the salary what it is paying now, hence resorting to temporary staff recruitment. Moreover such salary increase will benefit only 34 million (approximately) central government workers who are on roll at the cost of majority people.
In such situation our question is why Seventh Pay Commission? Is it for common man? Or common man has to pay for it knowingly or unknowingly?
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Kindly treat this application as Public Interest Litigation and do the needful. Our humble prayer to their lordships is
- to ask the government not to implement the seventh pay commissions’ recommendations and
- direct the Government of India to constitute a commission to look into wasteful revenue expenditures and reduce the same by reducing such expenditures as hefty salary other allowances and disproportionate pension allowances, foreign trips etc paid across the board and implement such reduction within the specified time frame.
Thank You
Date: 28/04/2015
Vinay Kulkarni.
Place: Hubli Petitioner
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