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Unions urge for Constitution of the Seventh Pay Commission announcement in the Budget


Pressing for a people-friendly Budget for 2013-14, trade unions today urged Finance Minister P Chidambaram and his team to announce the constitution of the seventh pay commission along with raising the income tax threshold to Rs 5 lakh in a year from the present Rs 2 lakh. The demand was raised by the unions at a pre-Budget consultations in the North Block, even as the government is struggling har....