7th Pay Commission latest news today: BIG promotion, salary hike! Employees set to get Rs 6000 salary boost plus allowance

7th Pay Commission latest news today: Centre has cleared the way for promotion of the officers of Department of Posts, as they are entitled to have this privilege of getting the promotion under the Modified Assured Career Progression Scheme (MACPS). Initially, Inspectors / Assistant Supervisors appointed before January 1, 2016 under grade pay 4800 will have this advantage and their salaries will increase by about Rs 6000 after their promotion. 

HS Tiwari, former Secretary General of AG Office, Prayagraj, told Zee Business online that the government has issued a clarification saying that these officers should get promotions although the final order has not yet been issued. Under the 7th Pay Commission, the basic salary of officers with grade pay of Rs 4800 will be increased to Rs 56100 per month after promotion, along with hike in their Dearness Allowance (DA) and Travel Allowances (TA).

What is MACPS
This scheme was brought under the 7th Pay Commission, under which there will be no annual appraisal or increment of those central government employees, whose performance has not been good.

Notably, with the arrival of MACPS under the 7th Pay Commission, the employees of Class III and Class IV were greatly annoyed, be cause if this promotion system was implemented, promotion of those employees was stopped who were not up to the mark.

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7th Pay Commission Promotion arrangement
Harishankar Tiwari stated that on the 10, 20 and 30 years marks, employees were expected to get promotions automatically. Earlier, there was an Assured Career Progression (ACP) scheme, but with implementation of the 7th Pay Commission, this has been changed to the Modified Assured Career Progression Scheme (MACPS).