The law ministry will approve the formation of a committee that will examine the pay-hike issues of lower court judges.
- The panel will recommend the new pay structure for the judges.
- Second National Judicial Pay Commission to recommend salary hikes for the 21,000 lower court judges is set to be taken up by the union cabinet very soon.
- The judges and judicial officers got the last pay hike in 2010
- The commission will be headed by former Supreme Court judge PV Reddi.
- The current entry-level salary for a junior civil judge is Rs 45000 while a senior judge gets nearly Rs 80,000.
- The first judicial pay commission was set up in March 1996 and it was headed by Justice Jagannatha Shetty
- The Supreme Court had appointed a one-member committee under Justice E Padhmanabhan, who submitted his report in July 2009 recommending the three-fold hike.
