8th Pay Commission: After the statement of the Finance Ministry on the Eighth Pay Commission, 50 lakh existing central employees and about 67 lakh pensioners were disappointed. These employees had high expectations from the upcoming budget.
8th Pay Commission: Before the new year 2025, the central government has given a big blow to 48 lakh employees and 65 lakh pensioners. The central government has once again clarified the situation regarding the formation of the 8th Pay Commission. The Union Minister of State for Finance has said that at present no proposal is being considered regarding the 8th Pay Commission.
In fact, on Tuesday, MPs Javed Ali Khan and Ramji Lal Suman had asked the question that in the Union Budget 2025-26, is the Center considering making a big announcement related to the new pay commission? On this, Minister of State for Finance Pankaj Chaudhary said in the Rajya Sabha that no proposal for the formation of the Eighth Pay Commission is pending before the government. Earlier in July, after the General Budget 2024-25, Union Finance Secretary, T.V. Somanathan had said that there is still enough time for the formation of the new pay commission. Because the recommendations of the new pay commission will be implemented in 2026 and right now we are in 2024.
Why is the demand for implementation of the 8th Pay Commission rising? Actually, usually a new pay commission is formed every ten years. The 7th Pay Commission was formed in February 2014, but its recommendations were implemented from 1 January 2016, which will end on 31 December 2025. According to this, the recommendations of the Eighth Pay Commission are proposed to be implemented on central employees, armed forces and state government personnel from January 2026, in such a situation, the employee organizations were hoping that the central government could take a decision regarding the new pay commission in the budget 2025-26 to be presented in February.
Till now many employee organizations have sent proposals
- It is worth noting that in the past months, various employee organizations including Employees Confederation, National Council of Joint Consultative Machinery and Indian Railway Technical Supervisor Association have written letters to the Central Government demanding the implementation of the Eighth Pay Commission.
- Indian Railway Technical Supervisor Association ‘IRTSA’ had urged Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman that the Central Government should constitute the Eighth Pay Commission without any delay.
- Confederation of Central Government Employees and Workers had written a letter to PM Modi earlier this year and urged that a new pay commission should be constituted without any delay in the current circumstances.
- The Employees Forum had also presented a memorandum to Union Cabinet Secretary TV Somanathan, requesting him to expedite the formation of the Eighth Pay Commission.
- Recently, during the monsoon session, Rajya Sabha MPs Ramjilal Suman and Javed Ali Khan had raised questions about this. On this, Minister of State for Finance Pankaj Chaudhary had said that at present there is no proposal before the Central Government for the consideration of the 8th Finance Commission, only 2 representations have been received by the government, hence there is no thought about its formation.
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