Subordinate ranks of Nagaland Police (NP) including the Fire and Emergency services and the state vigilance have urged the state government to restructure the 6th ROP and demanded that complete pay parity on a par with other states should be maintained upon the implementation of 7th ROP.
The aggrieved personnel told Nagaland Post in an exclusive interview that as per the 6th Central Pay Commission (CPC) the pay structure was implemented for the higher grades, but for the lower grades, the employees pay structure was modified discounting the recommended pay scale. They said that the pay scale of all categories of uniformed personnel should have been granted on a par with the corresponding ranks of the other states.
Further, they pointed out that implementation of the 6th ROP in 2010 was made above the rank of deputy superintendent whereas below the rank of inspector was not affected.
The aggrieved personnel said retrospective analysis of the fixation of pay as revised vide the 6th CPC showed that the uniformed service personnel in the lower grades have been most deprived in the rate of fixation compared with the higher grades and other civil services employees, which they construed as “discriminatory in nature”.
As per the declared proposal during the initial process for implementation of the 6th ROP in the state, the provisions of the 6th CPC was assured to be implemented in “toto”, they said.
However, the schedules of the revised pay as per the Nagaland Service (ROP) Rules, 2010 in comparison with the 6th CPC recommendations, the parity in pay and emoluments was yet to be fully realized in respect of uniformed services personnel through identical pay band and grade pay in the revised structure.
Besides the inequality in the pay scale, they said there were also differences in rate of various facilities and allowances that required review and restructuring for a comprehensive salary package as envisaged and provisioned by the CPC.
Maintaining that they have been deprived of the rights for long, the aggrieved personnel stated that they were not claiming for the lapsed arrears, which might have accrued had the 6th ROP been implemented as per the recommendation.
However, they asserted that restructuring of the 6th ROP was necessary so it would go into the fitment of the 7th ROP as recommended by central government and which was approved recently by the state government.
The aggrieved police personnel also appealed to the state government to act upon for objective realization so as to enable the employees to have the benefits entailed upon them.
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