Some salary un-related recommendations from the Sixth Pay Commission

•No future recruitment to be made to what is presently Group D in government service comprising peons etc

•Additional pecuniary benefits for higher performance

•Performance to be judged on concrete end results

•Enhanced pay for nurses, teachers, constabulary, postmen and forest guards

•Bonus to be productivity linked

•Increments to be in the form of two and a half per cent of the total pay and the date of all increments to be July 1

•Among Group A services the high performers to be given an increment of 3.5 per cent

•Pension to be 50 per cent of the last pay drawn irrespective of the number of years of service

•Only three gazetted holidays

The writer teaches contemporary Indian history at Panjab University, Chandigarh. He provided inputs to the Ayyar Committee (2007) on revamping the curriculum for induction training of the Indian Administrative Service