The Himachal Pradesh government has notified revised pay rules that will affect nearly 14,000 employees working in 89 categories. The notification, issued on Saturday, relates to the HP Civil Services (Revised Pay) Second Amendment Rules, 2025.
The amendment omits section 7A of the rules, which was inserted on January 3, 2022. According to Sanjeev Sharma, president of the Federation of Secretarial Employees Union, due to this change, employees will lose between Rs 5,000 and Rs 15,000 per month after their pay is re-fixed, effective from January 1, 2016.
"We discussed the issue in detail with other employees' outfits and decided to meet the chief minister, chief secretary and Principal Secretary (Finance) on Monday and plead for withdrawing the notification regarding the amended Rules," he said.
He added that the decision mainly impacts employees in the lower and middle levels.
“Employees adjust their expenses, including school fees of children, loan instalments and other regular expenses as per the salary, and the drop in salary would shake the employee,” he said.
The notification states that employees’ pay will be re-fixed as if section 7A had never been inserted. It also says no recovery will be made for any extra payment already given.
The section 7A provided that the posts/categories, whose Pay Band or Grade Pay was not re-revised after implementation of Revised (Pay) Rules, 2009, the pay in applicable Level in Pay Matrix as on January 1, 2016, shall be obtained by multiplying the existing basic pay as on December 31, 2015, by factor 2.59 while the multiplying factor would be 2.25 after omitting section 7A of the Rules.
This means the multiplying factor for revision of the pay is now 0.34 lower, and the basic pay will be reduced proportionately when re-fixed. The actual loss will depend on each employee’s unrevised basic pay, which forms the base for calculation.
The new rules will not apply to Central government employees or those covered under the revised UGC pay scales.
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