The armed forces' personnel are of the view that if the Pay Commission is implemented in its present form, it will position them much below their civilian counterparts in terms of salaries, facilities and status, defence sources said.
One of the main grudges that the armed forces have is with regard to the "risk-hardship matrix" dealing with the allowances for posting in tough areas.
Under the new scale, a senior IAS official posted in a city in northeast India will draw much more as "hardship allowance" when compared to the Rs 31,500 per month that military officers posted in Siachen are to receive, sources said adding the difference will come out to be over 50 per cent.
Navy chief Admiral RK Dhowan was the first among the three service chiefs to officially comment on the Pay Commission report.
"Whatever we feel are the shortcomings are being taken up by the three services with the Ministry of Defence to see that whatever we feel is necessary for our men, our officers, our civilians, is made available to them," Dhowan had said here on December 3.