The government on Saturday formed a high-level committee headed by External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee to address armed forces' concerns over 'anomalies' in the Central Pay Commission report.

Following this, the services decided to accept the revised pay scales 'for the moment' and submit the salary
bills to the defence ministry on Monday.

The three-member committee was constituted following a direction from Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who is currently abroad, government sources said.

The armed forces on Friday refused

to accept the revised pay scales and did not submit the salary bills for October.

However, the defence forces have now agreed to accept the pay scales with the existing 'anomalies', but would wait for a decision from the committee in which Defence Minister A K Antony and Finance Minister P Chidambaram would be members. 

Consequently, all defence personnel would receive new pay along with the 40 per cent arrears on October 1.

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