The composition of the the seventh Central Pay Commission (CPC) is dominated by bureaucrats. Other than the chairman, all of them are government officers, two of them being from the Indian Administrative Services (IAS). IAS officers have always been part of all the previous CPCs, and committees of secretaries are routinely set up to resolve anomalies and other pay issues of their own and other central services. IAS officers have a clear conflict of interest in all these appointments. On this analogy, it must be argued that some members of the CPC should be from the private sector. The implementation and settlement of anomalies could be resolved by a standing, though whittled down, CPC, or a committee independent of bureaucracy.
P K Garg New Delhi
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