50 SOCIAL SCIENTIST would have liked to recommend much higher scales for the lower sections of employees, it would not have been possible for the Government to implement such a recommendation owing to its heavy financial implications. The Commission had, therefore, done the next best thing by reducing the gap between the higher and lower salaried brackets of employees. The Commission had been guided by the socialist policies of the Government^ (Emphasis added). The question that is > most relevant here is : are the recommendations of the Commission based on the socialist policies ? It would be relevant to examine the question in some depth. Outlining the philosophy, the Commission mentions that "inclusiveness, comprehensibility and adequacy" are its guiding principles. But these words do not convey much. In this connection, it would be pertinent to examine Table 1. We have tabulated in Table 1 the scales of main categories of employees upto Junior Class I services. Since the total duration of the nine pay scales included varies between 13 years to 20 years, we have taken the median value of 15 years to determine the salary of a person in a particular scale. When a particular scale ends after 13 or 14 years, it has been assumed that the employee is placed in the next higher scale and his salary has been worked out on that basis. For instance, assuming that a peon is placed in the scale of a daftri after 13 years, two more increments of the daftries, scale are added. This explains why the salary of a peon after 15 years is determined at Rs 228. In order to study the disparity ratio, it is not enough to take into account the differences in initial salary, but also to study how these differences tend to decrease or increase over time. Consequently, a long term perspective would imply the study of rate of increments in various scales and their impact on disparity ratio. A study of recommended pay scales by the Pay Commission reveals that the percentage increase in basic salary over the minimum initial salary of the scale rises as we proceed from the lower to the higher scales of pay. It is 23.2 per cent in the case of peons, 28.9 per cent in the case of daftries, 30.0 per cent in the case of artisans (semi-skilled workers), but is 65.0 per cent in the case ofSAS accountants, 84.6 per cent in the case of Assistant Engineers, Superintendents and Section Officers and 92.8 per cent in the case of All-India Services. As a consequence, the index of disparity ratio which is 100:378 in the initial salary between these scales will widen to 100:592 after 15 years. An analysis of the Pay Commission's recommendations, therefore, reveals an inverted concept of socialism being used by the Commission, because by granting much higher rates of increment, the Commission widens disparities over time. In a society which professes to move towards socialism, these disparities should narrow down. Keeping this in view the Commission should have provided for much higher rates of increme-nets in the lower scales and it should have urged the government to absorb the increases in their expenditures over a period of 15 years. The Commission justifying the recommendation of Rs 185 as the