Doctors feel cheated with 7th Pay Commission

This decision has not gone well with the doctors who had actually demanded that NPA should be raised to 40%. Not only has this demand been ignored, the NPA has been reduced, apart from being removed from the calculations of basic pay for the purpose of HRA. In terms of calculations, NPA is added to basic to pay for the calculation of various allowances such as HRA. Thus removal would imply a lower final salary than expected.

This comes coupled with the fact that the government, the 7th Central Pay Commission has been recommended to reduce the percentage of House Rent Allowance for all categories of Central Government employees rationalized to 24 percent, 16 percent and 8 percent of the Basic Pay for Class X, Y and Z cities respectively.

What is Non-Practising Allowance?

Simply put, Non Practising allowance is given to doctors in states, where private practice along with government service is not allowed. Thus, in places where private practice is allowed, doctors substantiate their income with private practice and earn more. It has been a long standing demand of the medical profession to increase the non-practising allowance, so that all doctors in places where private practice is not allowed, earn at par to those who do private practise.

Speaking to Medical Dialogues, Dr Pankaj Solanki, President FORDA said." This is clearly against the interest of the medical profession. Medical Profession has been particularly discriminated in this pay commission.We request the Union Government of India to consider increasing the NPA and adding NPA to the basic salary while calculating various allowances like HRA, etc."

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