The Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi
has approved appointment of Second National Judicial Pay Commission
(SNJPC) for Subordinate Judiciary in the country.
The Commission is to be headed by Shri Justice (Retd.J P.Venkatrama
Reddi, former Judge of Supreme Court of India. Shri R. Basant, a former
Judge of the Kerala High Court is the Member of the Commission.
The Commission will make its recommendations to the State Governments preferably within a period of 18 months.
It will examine the present structure of emoluments and conditions of
service of Judicial Officers in the States and UTs. The Commission aims
to evolve the principles which would govern pay structure and other
emoluments of Judicial Officers belonging to the Subordinate Judiciary
of the country. It will examine the work methods and work environment
as also the variety of allowance and benefits in kind that are available
to Judicial Officers in addition to pay and to suggest rationalization
and simplification thereof.
The Commission will devise its own procedures and formulate modalities
necessary for accomplishing the task. The Commission also aims at making
the pay scales and conditions of service of Judicial Officers uniform
throughout the country.
The recommendations of the Commission will help in promoting efficiency
in Judicial Administration, optimizing the size of judiciary etc. and to
remove anomalies created in implementation of earlier recommendations.
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(Release ID :173389)
Source: Press Information Bureau (PIB)
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