The Army, Navy and Indian Air Force personnel are all set to get enhanced pay as per the recommendations of the 7th Pay Commission from the current month.
The government had last week the enhanced their pay package after the Union cabinet accepted certain demands of the the three services including restoring an earlier system of disbursing disability pension.
The three services issued general instructions separately to disburse the revised pay as well as the arrears in May's salary. "Instructions have been issued for giving revised pay in the current month's salary," official sources said.
The revised pay will be given with effect from January 2016, as recommended by the 7th Pay Commission. The panel's recommendations were not implemented for the three services after they raised the issue of certain anomalies.
Heeding their other major demand, the government last week decided to continue with an earlier system of disbursing disability pension and not adopt a new regime as recommended by the 7th pay
commission. The armed forces have been pressing for reverting to the percentage-based regime for calculating
disability pension and were strongly opposed to the slab-based system conceived by the pay panel. Agencies