BENGALURU: The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) personnel get some amount of relief in the name of allowance, which is not up to its mark. CISF personnel receive a haircutting allowance at the rate of Rs 5 per month, the lowest among 196 government allowances that prevail today, according to indiatimes.com.

However, if we go through the record of the outdated authorities perks, which is quiet lengthy. For a postal division staff, they are entitled to 90per month cycle allowance, if the worker fulfills a quantity for the circumstances involving the submission for the proof that there has been an “in depth use” for the bicycle. Indian Foreign Service officers are provided a financial incentive that is ridiculously low for studying a non-compulsory overseas language at 100 per month.

If the officer turns above ‘proficient’ in that language then it becomes 200 per month. However, when the 7th Central Pay Commission evaluated the demands of IAS, IFS, IPS, Central government services and defence personnel in several rounds of meetings with a time period of two years, they encountered an enormous task of rationalizing as many as 196 allowances.

This list of allowances includes the well-known ones like DA (dearness allowance) and HRA (house rent allowance), but there also exists perks such as shoe allowance, spectacle allowance, boiler watch keeping allowance and secret allowance. In regards to this, the Central Government has submitted its report 10 days ago to the finance ministry, which clearly recommended abolition of 52 allowances that they found obsolete.

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