7th Pay Commission: Every 10 years, the government has been constituting a new pay commission to increase the salary of government employees and pension of pensioners.
8th Pay Commission: The government has given a shock to the central employees who were waiting for the formation of the 8th Pay Commission. In response to a question asked in the Question Hour in the Rajya Sabha regarding the formation of the 8th Pay Commission, Minister of State for Finance Pankaj Chaudhary said that no such proposal is under consideration before the government.
Rajya Sabha member Ramnath Thakur asked the Finance Minister what reasons were recorded in the files for not considering and not approving Para 1.22 of the 7th Pay Commission. Responding to this question, the Minister of State for Finance said, the Union Cabinet has not considered this matter while giving approval to the revision of pay and allowances on the basis of the Seventh Pay Commission.
In para 1.22 of the report of the Seventh Pay Commission, it has been recommended to review the fitment factor after 5 years, which will pave the way for salary increase of central employees. But the government has been avoiding implementing it.
The Finance Minister was also asked whether the Eighth Pay Commission is not being constituted because the government is not in a position to bear the burden of the Pay Commission? Why is the government, which claims to be the fifth largest economy in the world, not constituting the Eighth Pay Commission to review the salaries of central employees who have been facing inflation for the last 30 years? In response to this question, the Minister of State for Finance said that no such proposal is under consideration before the government.
In view of the back-breaking inflation, central employees are continuously demanding from the government to constitute the Eighth Pay Commission. Every 10 years, the government constitutes a new pay commission to increase the salary of government employees and pension of pensioners. The Pay Commission is given 18 months to submit its report and recommendations. The 7th Pay Commission was constituted in 2014 and its recommendations were implemented from January 1, 2016.
