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Armed forces may get further pay hike
Nitin Gokhale
Tuesday, June 24, 2008, (New Delhi)
Protests by retired officers and letters of resignations from serving officials have forced the government to come up with a better pay hike for the military and Para-military like the Border Security Force (BSF).

Over 900 Army officers, crucial to India's fight against insurgency and terrorism, have applied for premature retirement since January this year.

Defence minister AK Antony will surely have this at the back of his mind when he meets the three service chiefs and the cabinet secretary to take a final call on raising the salaries for the armed forces.

Now, a government panel has proposed to hike salaries by about 15 per cent. This will be calculated on the hike offered by the recent pay commission.

And there's a bonus for jawans, regardless of where they are posted.

The military service pay for jawans will be doubled to Rs 2000.

There will be 15 per cent hike over the basic pay to everyone. This means a Colonel's salary will go up by at least Rs 4,000 to about Rs 52,000 a month.

There will also be an assured annual increment of four per cent to all ranks in all organisations instead of 2.5 per cent.

On Thursday, the government will take a final decision but it's unclear whether this will address another major grouse of the military that they are not at par with the bureaucrats.
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