7th Pay Commission allowance: PM Narendra Modi government is continuing with the trend of clearing seventh pay commission based benefits for all concerned. This time, Modi government has cleared an annual clothing allowance of Rs 10,000 for soldiers. This trend also bodes well for central government employees who are waiting for a hike in their salaries based on fitment factor of 3.68 times rather than the present 2.57 times. 

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The 7th Pay Commission had recommended a clothing allowance in lieu of personnel clothing which was earlier being provided through ordnance factories, it was revealed. As things stand now, this clothing allowance will be used, Army and Defence Ministry sources said, by soldiers and Junior Commissioned Officers (JCOs) to procure items that includes summer uniforms, shirt angola, woollen jersey, mufti dress and accouterments, belts, badges, ribbons, chevron and formation signs.

It was Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman who on Sunday cleared the list of items that will now have to be purchased by each soldier from the 7th Pay Commission allowance that now stands implemented. However, the rest of the clothing items, including combat dress, physical fitness training kit as also the newly-introduced improved physical training (PT) shoes, will continue to be issued to all soldiers from the military stores as authorised items.

Notably, 7th Pay commission allowance order will not affect other aspects of clothing and recruits will continue to get dresses during recruitment training as they did earlier. Military stores will provide blankets, ground sheets, raincoats, mosquito nets and other such products of critical requirements to soldiers too.

Considering they are so prohobitively expensive, special clothing for those soldiers deployed at Siachen, super high-altitude and extreme cold climate areas will continue to be supplied by military stores and will not be purchased via this 7th pay commission allowance. Curent procedures will continue as before, according to official sources.

Revealing the reason behind this big move, an Army official said, "Dress allowance caters to meet the long-due aspiration of soldiers who wanted well-stitched and well-fitted uniforms."

Notably, the clothing allowance that was recommended by 7th Pay Commission is based on the feedback from soldiers and this had to do with their disappointment with quality and inappropriate fitting of dresses that were provided by military stores.

Now, with the implementation of the 7th pay commission allowance order, soldiers can themselves get dress material and they cab get dresses stitched as per their individual fit.

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As far as central government employees are concerned, all of these recent moves by the Centre augur well for their demands for a pay hike as it is building tremendous momentum in their favour. If granted, minimum salaries will jump to Rs 26,000.