Chiefs of National Security Guard (NSG), Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) and Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) were today given apex pay scale of Rs 80,000, thus removing an anomaly in their salaries.
Besides them, Satish Chandra Jha, Special Director in Intelligence Bureau has also been given apex pay scale of Rs 80,000.
The Appointments Committee of Cabinet has approved grant of the apex pay scale to R C Tayal, Surender Singh and Banshidhar Sharma--Director General of NSG, CISF and SSB, respectively, an order issued by Department of Personnel and Training said.
All of them are Indian Police Service officers of 1980 batch, whereas Jha is a 1981 batch IPS officer of Bihar cadre.
The ACC had in May last year given the top pay package to BSF Director General D K Pathak and National Investigation Agency DG Sharad Kumar, both 1979-batch officers of the Indian Police Service.
In July, another senior IPS officer, Rajiv Jain, who is working as Special Director in Intelligence Bureau, was given the apex pay scale.
These officers have complained of not getting Rs 80,000 pay scale which is fixed for Director General-level.
The committee has sought direction from ACC so that -- in
case of non-receipt of preference within the stipulated time from the officers concerned -- they may be assigned the most deficit cadre subject to receipt of 'No Objection Certificate' from the parent cadre as well as recipient cadre, it said.
The ACC is headed by the Prime Minister and has Home Minister Rajnath Singh as its member.
Meanwhile, in another case, West Bengal has declined consent for change of cadre to IAS officer Kritika Sharma citing "acute shortage".
Sharma, whose spouse is IAS officer Abhishek Anand of Uttar Pradesh, has sought change in her West Bengal cadre. The committee was informed that the West Bengal government is unable to give its consent due to acute shortage of IAS officers in the state cadre.
It was also conveyed that if Abhishek requests for change of his Uttar Pradesh cadre to West Bengal, then no-objection for his cadre change would be considered by the state government.
The panel decided that the proposal for cadre change of Sharma may be processed on receipt of no objection or consent from her parent cadre, that is, West Bengal government, and inform the officer accordingly, the minutes of the meeting said.
