7th CPC on allowances accepted by the Government with 34 modifications

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S.No

Name Of
the Allowance

Recommendations of the 7^th
CPC

Modifications accepted by the
Government

1

Antarctica Allowance

Retained. Rationalised. To be paid at ₹31500 for Level 9 and above and  ₹21000
for Level 8 and below as per Cell RH-Max of the newly proposed Risk and
Hardship Matrix

To be kept out of Risk and Hardship Matrix and to be
paid on per day basis.

Rates revised from  ₹1125
per day to  ₹1500
per day and from  ₹1688
per day to  ₹2000 per day in summer and winter
respectively.

Team Leader to get 10% extra @ ₹1650
per day and  ₹2200 per day in summer and winter
respectively

2

Breakdown Allowance

Abolished

Retained.

Existing Rates Multiplied 2.25.

Rates revised from  ₹120
–  ₹300
per month to  ₹270
–  ₹675 Per Month

3

Cash Handing Allowance

Abolished

Subsumed in cash Handling and Treasury Allowance and
rates revised as under:

(in  ₹.Per Month)

4

Coal Pilot Allowance

Abolished

Retained.

Existing rates multiplied by 2.25.

Rates revised from  ₹45
per trip to  ₹102
for first trip and from  ₹15
per trip to  ₹34 for every subsequent
trip.

5

Cycle Allowance

Abolished

Retained.

Existing rates of  ₹90
per month doubled to  ₹180 per month for Department of Posts and
Railways.

To be retained in other Ministries/Departments where
there is functional justification for any particular category of staff with the
approval of Department of Expenditure.

6

Daily Allowance

Retained. Rationalized.

All provisions will apply to Railways personnel
also.

Travelling Charges for Level – 12 -13 revised from
‘Non-Ac Taxi charges up to 50 km to ‘ AC taxi charges upto 50 Kms.’ And for
level 14 and above to be revised from ‘AC Taxi charges up to 50 km’ to ‘AC
taxi charges as per actual expenditure commensurate with official
engagements’.

Existing system of Daily allowance in the Ministry of
Railways to continue.

7

Fixed Medical Allowance (FMA)

Retained. Status Quo to be maintained

Existing rate of  ₹500
per month revised to  ₹1000 per month.

8

Fixed Monetary Compensation

Abolished as a separate allowance. Eligible employees
to be governed by the newly proposed “ Additional Post
Allowance.”

Not to be subsumed and retained as a separate
allowance.

Existing rates multiplied by 2.25.

Rates revised from  ₹50
to  ₹115
for full beat and from  ₹24
to  ₹54 for sharing a beat.

9

Funeral Allowance

Abolished

Retained with change in nomenclature as ‘ Funeral
Expense’.

Existing rate multiplied by 1.5.

Rates revised from  ₹6000
to  ₹9000.

10

Holiday compensatory Allowance

Abolished as a separate allowance. Eligible employees
to be governed by National Holiday Allowance

Not to be subsumed and retained as a separate
allowance.

Existing system to continue in Intelligence Bureau
(IB) and Research and Analysis Wing (RAW).

11

Hospital Patient Care Allowance (HPCA)/Patient Care
Allowance (PCA)

Retained. Rationalised. To be paid as per Cell R1H3 of
the newly proposed Risk and Hardship Matrix.

HPCA and PCA are admissible to ministerial staff as
well on the premise that the entire hospital area carries the risk of
communicable diseases. This practice should be stopped and HPCA/PCA should be
admissible to only those employees who come in continuous and routine contact
with the patients.

Ministerial Staff to continue to get HPCA/PCA as per
R1H3 (₹4100
for level 8 and below and  ₹5300 for level 9 and above) of Risk and Hardship
Matrix.

12

House Rent Allowance (HRA)

Retained. Rationalized by a factor of
0.8

The recommendations of the 7^th CPC is
accepted with the following modification:

(i) HRA shall not be less than  ₹5,400
per month, ₹3,600 per month and  ₹1,800 per month calculated @30% of minimum pay for X
(Population of 50 lakh & above), 20% for Y (5 to 50 lakh) and 10% for Z
(below 5 lakh) category of cities.

(ii) HRA shall be revised to 27% , 18% & 9% of
Basic Pay in X,Y & Z cities when Dearness Allowance (DA) crosses 25% and
further to 30%, 20% and 10% of Basic pay in X,Y & Z cities when DA crosses
50%.

13

Kit Maintenance Allowance

Abolished as a separate allowance. Subsumed in the
newly proposed Dress Allowance

Subsumed in Dress Allowance for special protection
Group (SPG) and factored in for determining the revised rates of Dress
Allowance for SPG.

14

Launch Campaign Allowance

Abolished

Retained.

Existing rate multiplied by 1.5.

Rated revised from  ₹7500
per annum to  ₹11250 per annum.

15

Nursing Allowance

Retained. Rationalized.

Existing rates multiplied by 1.5.

Rates revised from  ₹4800
per month to  ₹7200 per month.

16

Operation Theatre Allowance

Abolished

Retained.

Existing rate multiplied by 1.5

Rates revised from  ₹360
per month to  ₹540 per month.

17

Overtime Allowance (OTA)

Abolished except for operational staff and industrial
employees governed by statutory provisions.

Ministries/Department to prepare a list of those staff
coming under the category of ‘ operational staff’.

Rates of Overtime Allowance not to be revised
upwards.

18

Perofessional update Allowance

Retained. Enhanced by 50%. Extended to some more
categories

This allowance to continue to be paid to non-gazetted
staff of Department of Atomic Energy (DAE).

Existing rate multiplied by 1.5

Rates revised from  ₹7500
per annum to  ₹ 11250 per annum.

19

Qualification Grant

Abolished as a separate allowance. Eligible employees
to be governed by the newly proposed Higher Qualification Incentive for Defence
Personnel.

Tier-II of the Technical Allowance as well as the
Qualification Grant will be merged into Higher Qualification Incentive for
Defence personnel

7^th CPC
Recommendations accepted with the modifications that:

(i)                  This will not
include Tier-II Courses, and

(ii)                Courses will be
reviewed by associating experts, including outside professionals and
academicians 31.12.2017.

20

Ration Money Allowance (RMA)

Retained Rationalized.

Provision of free rations and the grant of Ration
Money Allowance to officers of Defence forces posted in peace areas should be
withdrawn

Provision of free ration for officers of Defence
Forces shall be discontinued in peace areas.

RMA shall continue to be paid to officers Defence
Forces posted in peace areas. The cash shall be credited directly into the bank
account of officers.

21

Risk Allowance

Abolished

Retained.

Existing rate multiplied by 2.25

Rates revised from  ₹60
per month to  ₹135 per month

22

Siachen Allowance

Retained. Rationalised. To be paid at  ₹31500
for Level 9 and above and  ₹21000 for Level 8 and below as per cell RH-Max of the
newly proposed Risk and Hardship Matrix.

Rates revised from:

₹31500 to  ₹42500
per month for Level 9 and above, and  ₹21000
per month to  ₹30000 per month for level 8 and
below

23

Space Technology Allowance

Abolished

Retained.

Existing rate to be multiplied by 1.5

Rates revised from  ₹7500
per annum to  ₹11250 per annum.

24

Special Appointment Allowance

Abolished as a separate allowance. Eligible employees
to be governed by the newly proposed “Extra Work Allowance”.

Granted to Central Armed Police Force Personnel
holding special appointments

To include Assistant Sub Inspector (Radio Mechanic),
Assistant Sub Inspector (Radio Operator) and Sub Inspector (Radio Mechanic) in
the list eligible for Extra Work Allowance @2% of Basic Pay per month with the
conditions recommended by the 7^th
CPC.

25

Special Compensatory (Remote Locality) Allowance
(SCRLA)

Abolished as a separate allowance. Eligible employees
to be governed

by the newly proposed Tough Location Allowance (TLA)
-I, II or III.

Tough Location Allowance will not be admissible along
with Special Duty Allowance.

7th CPC recommendations that Tough Location Allowance
(TLA) will not be admissible along with Special Duty Allowance (SDA) accepted
subject to condition that employees be given the additional option to avail of
the benefit of Special Compensatory (Remote Locality) Allowance (SCRLA) at
pre-revised rates under the 6th CPC regime along with SDA at revised rates of
7th CPC

26

Special Duty Allowance (SDA)

Retained. Rationalized by a factor of 0.8.

SDA for All India Service (AIS) officers should be
paid at the rate of 30 percent of Basic Pay and for other civilian employees at
the rate of 10 percent of Basic Pay.

As per DoPT’s OM No. 14017/4/2005-AIS (II) dated 10th
February, 2009, ‘Special Allowance for Officers belonging to North – East
Cadres of All India Service (AIS) officers’ is granted @25%.

Special Duty Allowance (SDA) is granted
@12.5%.

Rationalized by a factor of 0.8.

Both these allowances namely ‘Special Allowance for
Officers belonging to North – East Cadres of AIS’ and Special Duty Allowance
(SDA shall continue to be paid separately as at present at the revised rates of
20% and 10% respectively.

27

Special Incident/Investigation/Security
Allowance

Retained. Rationalized by a factor of 0.8.

Department of Revenue should assess the risk profile
of the officials of

the Enforcement Directorate (ED) at various levels and
thereafter make a case to Ministry of Finance for grant of Risk and Hardship
Allowance, if any, as per appropriate cell.

Special Security Allowance (SSA) for Special
Protection Group (SPG) to be revised from 40% to 55% of Basic Pay for
operational duties and from 20% to 27.5% of Basic Pay for non – operational
duties.

National Technical Research Organisation (NTRO)
employees to be granted this allowance @20% of Basic Pay.

This allowance was granted to Enforcement Directorate
as an ad – hoc measure with the approval of Department of Expenditure pending
recommendations of the 7th CPC. Accordingly, this allowance to be withdrawn
from ED with effect from 01.07.2017. As per recommendations of the 7th CPC,
Department of Revenue to examine proposal or Risk & Hardship allowance for
ED to make a case to Ministry of Finance for granting Risk and Hardship based
allowance to ED officials, if any.

28

Special Running Staff Allowance

Retained. Extended to some more
categories

Name of the allowance to continue as “ Additional
Allowance”.

29

Technical Allowance

Tier-I of the Technical Allowance will continue to be
paid on a monthly basis.

Tier-II of the Technical Allowance as well as the
Qualification Grant will be merged into Higher Qualification Incentive for
Defence Personnel

Existing system of Technical Allowance (Tier – I and
II) to continue at 3000 per month and 4500 per month up to
31.03.2018.

Courses of Technical Allowance (Tier –I and II) along
with Qualification Grant (Higher Qualification Incentive for Defence Personnel)
to be reviewed by associating experts, outside professionals and academicians
in order to keep pace with changing defence requirements.

Review of Courses to be completed before  31.12.2017.

Technical Allowance (Tier – II) to continue beyond
31.03.2018 only after review of courses.

30

Training Allowance

Retained. Rationalized by a factor of 0.8. Extended to
some more categories.

The allowance will be payable to an eligible employee
for a maximum period of five years only during the entire career.

Ceiling of 5 years period to be removed.

Standard cooling off period between tenures will
apply.

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Travelling Allowance

Retained. Rationalized.

Indian Railways to reconsider its position regarding
air travel to its

Employees

Level 6 to 8 of Pay Matrix to be entitled for Air  travel.

Level 5 A of Defence Forces to be clubbed with Level 6
for travelling entitlements.

Existing system to continue in Ministry of
Railways.

32

Treasury Allowance

Abolished

Subsumed in Cash Handling and Treasury Allowance and
rates revised as under:

(in `, per month)

33

Uniform Allowance

Abolished as a separate allowance. Subsumed in the
newly proposed Dress Allowance and to be paid annually.

7th CPC recommendations accepted with following
modifications:

Different rates for the following
categories:

(i) Special Protection Group (SPG) personnel- to be
paid annually @ Rs.27,800 per annum and Rs.21,225 per annum for operational and
non – operational duties respectively.

(ii) Nurses – to be paid monthly @ Rs.1800 per
month

To be extended to all Check Points of Bureau of
Immigration.

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Washing Allowance

Abolished as a separate allowance. Subsumed in the
newly proposed Dress Allowance

Subsumed in Dress Allowance in respect of Nurses and
factored in for determining the revised rates of Dress Allowance for
Nurses.