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8th Pay Commission: On July 23, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman did not make any announcement about the 8th Pay Commission in the Union Budget for FY 2024-2025. Crores of government employees and pensioners were waiting for the announcement of the formation of the Pay Commission, which would have recommended fitment factors and other guidelines for revision of their basic pay and allowances.
8th Pay Commission
Pay commissions are usually constituted every 10 years to deal with the salaries of employees. Finally, the Seventh Pay Commission was constituted on January 1, 2014 and its recommendations were implemented from January 1, 2016. In view of this, employees and pensioners were hoping that the government would announce the Eighth Pay Commission in the budget for the financial year 2024-2025, which would start the process of revising their salaries by January 1, 2026.
the government's proposed
A day before the presentation of the Budget, Minister of State for Finance Pankaj Chaudhary told the Lok Sabha that there is no proposal under consideration to constitute the Eighth Pay Commission. But two submissions have been found necessary for the formation of the Pay Commission in June 2024. The National Council (Staff Group), Joint Consultative Machinery (NC-JCM) was one of the recognised bodies of central government employees and pensioners that had written to the government in June seeking an announcement regarding the formation of the Eighth Pay Commission.
The government can still form the 8th Pay Commission
According to NC-JCM secretary Shiv Gopal Mishra, the government has not said anything about salary hike or 8th Pay Commission in the budget. According to him, the pay matrix is still subject to revision. According to Mishra, the pay matrix of central government employees, which determines their basic pay, can be revised even before the announcement of the 8th Pay Commission. Usually the pay matrix is revised based on the fitment factor suggested by the Pay Commission, which happens once in 10 years. But the 7th Pay Commission recommended the pay matrix for employees when the dearness allowance reaches 50 per cent of the basic pay.