8th Pay Commission: Big meeting of 8th Pay Commission in Bhubaneswar, will there be good news for the employees?

8th Pay Commission Latest Update: Amid discussions about increase in salary of central employees, a big meeting of the Eighth Pay Commission has started in Bhubaneswar on Monday. This two-day meeting will continue till July 7. After Bhubaneswar, the next meeting of the Commission will be held in Kolkata on 9 and 10 July. According to the information received from the official website of the New Pay Commission, Member Secretary Pankaj Jain and other senior officers of the Commission are participating.

In this meeting, suggestions and demands of employees of different departments and their organizations will be discussed. On the basis of this, the Eighth Pay Commission will prepare its report and present it before the government. On the basis of this report, there will be a way to increase the salary of lakhs of central employees and pensioners of the country.

What issues will be discussed in the Bhubaneswar meeting?

Let us tell you that before the meeting in Bhubaneswar, the Commission had held meetings with representatives of employees in different cities of the country like Srinagar and Lucknow. The Commission is meeting and holding talks with various employee unions, pensioners’ associations and other stakeholders for a nationwide consultation. The feedback received in these meetings is expected to help in formulating suggestions on many important issues, which include minimum basic pay, fitment factor, dearness allowance, changes in pension, allowances and other terms and conditions of employment.

Why the discussion of increasing basic salary to ₹69,000?

There is a number at the center of this debate- fitment factor. It is a multiplier which is used to change the existing basic salary of the employee when the new pay commission comes into effect. This forms the basis on which salary, pension and many allowances are recalculated. Under the Seventh Pay Commission, the fitment factor was fixed at 2.57, increasing the minimum basic salary from Rs 7,000 under the Sixth Pay Commission to Rs 18,000 with effect from January 2016.

How does the commission decide the salary of employees?

Contrary to popular belief, the Commission does not simply announce new salaries. It first seeks opinion from ministries, departments, employee unions, pensioners’ organizations and experts on the subject. Before preparing its recommendations for the government, the Commission is holding meetings in different cities and taking suggestions from the employees and their organizations.

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When will the 8th Pay Commission be implemented?

eighth pay commission It was notified in January 2025 and was initially expected to come into effect from January 1, 2026, but it is unlikely to come into effect immediately. Previous pay commissions generally took two to three years to submit their reports before government approval and rollout. This means that employees may have to wait longer before seeing the revised salary in their pay slips. If it is implemented retrospectively, eligible employees may get arrears for the intervening time.