GRADEPAY-4200 FOR MASTER CRAFTSMAN --MINISTRY OF DEFENCE ORDER

          The grade structure in the industrial as well as in the non-industrial trades, wherever already available and the pay scales of the Defence artisan staff shall stand modified w.e.f. 1.1.2006 as under:

(1) Skilled -                          Pay Band PB-I Grade Pay Rs. 1900

(2) Highly Skilled Grade II – Pay Band PB-I Grade Pay Rs. 2400

(3) Highly Skilled Grade I – Pay Band PB-I Grade Pay Rs. 2800

(4) Master Craftsman –       Pay Band PB-2 Grade Pay Rs. 4200

         Wherever the grade structure in the Industrial as well as Non-Industrial trades is already existing in the ratio of 45:55, the erstwhile Skilled and Highly Skilled, and 25% of Highly Skilled in the grade of Master Craftsman, the following will apply:

45% of the posts may be granted the pay scale of Skilled Worker (Grade pay of Rs. 1900 in the Pay Band PB-1);

25% of remaining 55% may be granted the pay scale of Master Craftsman (Grade Pay of Rs. 4200 in the pay band PB-2);

           The remaining posts may be divided in a ratio of 50:50 and redesignated as Highly Skilled Worker Grade-II (Grade Pay of Rs. 2400 in pay band PB-1) and Highly Skilled Worker Grade-1 (Grade pay of Rs. 2800 in pay band PB-1).
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