According to the "Budget at a Glance" for 2018-19, a summary of budgetary allocations and proposed expenditures, amount for salaries has been increased to Rs 42,070.33 crore from Rs 39,033.64 crore in 2017-18. "With the paltry hike of Rs 3,036.69 crore, we can give one instalment of DA and mandatory annual increment of 3 per cent of the basic pay next fiscal," said a senior finance department official. Besides, they are being deprived of a revised pay structure as the Centre has already implemented the new pay commission recommendations, which was followed by several states. The tenure of the pay commission, set up by Mamata Banerjee in November 2015, has already been extended twice and its tenure would end in November, 2018. "It appears that the tenure of the pay commission would be extended further and its recommendations would not be submitted before March 2019," said an official.

Source: The Telegraph January 31, 2018 20:03 UTC