Dear Comrades,
NEW DELHI: Government on Thursday said that it was working on guidelines
through inter-departmental consultations to give performance-based incentives to
its employees over and above their regular salary.
"The sixth Central Pay Commission (CPC) has recommended introduction of new
performance based pecuniary benefit, over and above the regular salary, for
government employees," MoS for department and personnel V Narayanasamy told the
Rajya Sabha in a written reply.
He said, "The benefit will be called Performance Related Incentive Scheme
(PRIS) and will be payable taking into account performance of employees during
the period under consideration. The recommendation has been accepted by the
government. Guidelines are being worked out through inter-departmental
consultation."
Though the fourth and fifth pay commissions had also recommended
performance-based incentives for central government employees, the successive
governments had not accepted it and put the proposal in cold storage due to the
absence of any credible benchmark for measuring their performance.
The UPA-II had, however, accepted the proposal of the sixth pay commission
and asked a panel of secretaries last year to come out with a formula for
disbursing incentives under the PRIS among employees of 62 central government
departments. The CoS had met several times since then and been in the process of
fine-tuning the guidelines.
Responding to another question, Narayanasamy said that the Centre has amended
All India Services Rules this year to enable the Central government to ask a
(non-performing) member of the service to retire in public interest.
"The Central government may, in consultation with the state government
concerned, require a Member of the Service to retire from service in public
interest, after giving such Member at least three month's previous notice in
writing or three month's pay and allowances," the minister said.
The TOI had reported this in February.
http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-03-16/india/31200518_1_government-employees-performance-based-incentives-pris
