(i) The increase in incremental rates over a span varies from 2.72% to 2.09% with the maximum in the incremental stages of Rs.250/- and Rs.300/-.
(ii) The disparity ratio between the minimum and maximum basic pay in the revised pay structure has come down to 1:7.04 from 1:7.48 of the previous revision. This has been achieved despite the increase of the number of scales from 24 to 27.
(iii) By providing sufficient spans along with accelerated incremental rates, the possibility of stagnation of senior level officers has been minimized to a large extent
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(iv) The existing internal relativity between scales have been ensured even on reducing the disparity ratio.
(v) The number of scales have been increased from the existing 24 to 27 inducting three new scales at higher level. This has been done mainly to accommodate certain categories of higher level officers in line Departments viz; with Senior level functionaries in the Government Secretariat.
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