NDMC approves 7th pay commission implementation for employees

The New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) approved the 7th Central Pay Commission (CPC) on Wednesday for their employees, which has been pending for the last seven years. This 7th CPC scale will be given to all the serving and retired NDMC employees who are drawing their salary or retired before December 2015.
Union Minister Meenakshi Lekhi, NDMC’s chairperson Amit Yadav, vice chairperson Satish Upadhyay, council member Kuljeet Singh Chahal, and others were present in the council’s meeting. In the council meeting, members of NDMC, along with all the dignitaries, considered and approved the 7th CPC for their employees, along with various citizen-centric initiatives and the restoration of the Main Gole Market building as a museum.
Satish Upadhyay, Vice-Chairperson of NDMC, said while talking to the press that the council has approved the grant of 7th CPC pay scales with reference to the Gazette Notification dated April 7, 2016, to all serving or retired NDMC employees who are drawing salary or pension under 6th (DTL) Delhi Transco Limited w.e.f. January 1, 2016. Upadhaya states that the council also approved a grant of DTL pay scales to the left-out categories of employees (Accounts/Audit and Legal Department) from April 1, 1998, to December 31, 2015 (including arrears) as per the recommendation of the Anomaly Committee of the NDMC. “We also passed the redevelopment plan for the Gole Market in the council meeting. We are also planning to turn the main building into a museum, which can be a tourist attraction. The theme is yet to be decided,” said the NDMC vice chairperson. Kuljeet Singh Chahal, a council member, informed that this decision of the NDMC will benefit 9,000 current employees and 11,000 former staffers who had retired before December 2015.