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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. (more…)

Chandigarh, November 3

Powered by a better bargaining force as a joint entity, the Empowered Committee of Finance Ministers has demanded that the Central government now share a 50 per cent burden for implementation of the Sixth Pay Commission. (more…)

New Delhi, November 3 : After the sixth Pay Commission nearly doubled the Travelling Allowance (TA) of senior officers, the Government says it won’t make additional funds available for the increased expenditure. It wants officers to cut official travel drastically to neutralize the effect of the increased TA. (more…)

The Empowered Committee of state Finance Ministers of different states which met in Chandigarh expressed their concern, that in next six months of the current fiscal year the rate of VAT collection might be impacted due to economic recession. (more…)

The empowered committee of state finance ministers is set to meet finance minister P Chidambaram in December to discuss Centre–state finances, including the contentious issue of sharing of tax revenue between the two. (more…)

Chandigarh, November 02 The Centre-state fiscal relations will be discussed in the one-day empowered committee meeting of state finance ministers, jointly being hosted by the Punjab and Haryana governments here.
This empowered committee meeting is an ongoing process and is held every 45 to 60 days at various places in the country. The last meeting took place in Kerala and in Jammu and Kashmir before that.

Some 12 finance ministers are expected to participate in the meeting tomorrow. While some ministers arrived today, the others are expected to arrive early morning. (more…)