Option Date Under 6th CPC w.r.t Date of Promotion/ Increment after 1/1/2006

(1) For option from Date of Increment :- The studies shows that employees defer 6CPC pay fixation to their respective increment month get no benefit out of the same.
This is because when an employee misses the revised increment during July 2006 on account of deferred fixation, he loses 3% of revised pay which is at any point of time more than the pre-revised increment the employee gets when he continues to get old pay after 1.1.2006. This is why the new Pay Fixation after 01.01.06 based on fitment table is lesser than the New Pay fixed on 1.1.2006.

(2) For option from Date of Promotion :- The studies shows that those who have been promoted or received their ACP after June-2006 can get benefits out of deferred pay fixation in the form of enhanced new pay as on Sept 2008. But you may have to incur loss in the pay arrears as you end up in receiving only the old pay till the date of New pay fixation.

The beneficial aspect of differing option to date of promotion is apparent particularly in case of Assistant Gr(I) of CSIR , for whom Pay scale has been revised w.e.f 15/09/2006, and their Basic is fixed below 6500 after fixation in revised scale of 6500-200-10500. The lower the fixation more the benefit.