PK Sinha News

The central government has given a two-month extension to IAS officer BK Prasad who probed the Ishrat Jahan 'missing files' case in the Union Home Ministry, an official source said here on Monday.

Senior IAS officer B K Prasad, who probed the Ishrat Jahan missing files case, has got two- month extension with Prime Minister Narendra Modi reducing the three-month period sought by Home Minister Rajnath Singh.

The central government employees and pensioners are likely to get their 6 months of arrears just ahead of the Dusshera festival in October.

Lakhs of central government employees who were spending restless nights thinking about the final implementation of the 7th Pay Commission recommendation will heave a sigh of relief on Tuesday.

Increased salary of July will be credited to government employees' accounts on August 1, 2016.

The secretaries group may recommended a 30 percent increase in minimum and maximum basic pay structures along with doubling of existing rates of allowances and advances.

The Empowered Committee of Secretaries headed by the Cabinet Secretary Pradeep Kumar Sinha is all set to meet on Saturday (June 11) to finally process the recommendations of the 7th Pay Commission.

The Central government has hardly been insensitive to the reasonable expectations of central government employees while announcing salary hikes in pay commissions. The same appear in the case of the 7th Pay Commission as well.

With over 1,900 fresh cases of dengue and 12 deaths reported in the last one week, Centre on Monday reviewed various preventive and clinical management measures to deal with the situation in Delhi and various other states.