8th Pay Commission: If you also want to know how many employees and pensioners of the country will get benefit after the Central Government approves the formation of the 8th Pay Commission, then you can know the answer here.
8th Pay Commission: With the announcement of the formation of the 8th Pay Commission, a wave of happiness has spread among lakhs of employees and pensioners of the Central Government in the country. The announcement which was awaited for a long time, has been approved by the Union Cabinet today. The 8th Pay Commission is the committee that takes decisions related to the salary, allowances and other financial benefits of government employees. Overall, this news is very good for more than 1 crore employees and pensioners of the country and the way for increase in salary and pension is going to open for them.
How many employees and pensioners will get the benefit of the announcement of the formation of the 8th Pay Commission?
The benefit of the formation of the 8th Pay Commission is going to be given to lakhs of government employees and pensioners of the country.
50 lakh central government employees: In this, different ministries, departments and Central Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs) of the Central Government are going to get the benefit of this. Their total number is 49.18 lakh (about 50 lakh) employees.
Defense employees: The salary and allowances of the army and defense employees, which include members of the Army, Navy and Air Force, will see an increase.
65 lakh pensioners: Government pensioners, whose number will be 64.89 lakh (about 65 lakh) pensioners, also include those retired employees who have retired from different government departments. They will also get the benefit of the new pay scale.
4 lakh employees of Delhi: Along with the employees of the Central Government, government employees in Delhi are also going to get the benefit of this.
When will the recommendations of the 8th Pay Commission be implemented
The recommendations of the 8th Pay Commission will be implemented from the year 2026 and the previous Pay Commission was implemented in the year 2016. In India, the pay commission is implemented for 10-10 years, so the recommendations of the 7th Pay Commission will be applicable till the year 2026. As today, Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnav informed in a press conference that the report of the 8th Pay Commission will come in the year 2026 and after that it will be considered and implemented. The process from approval of the formation of the new pay commission to giving the recommendations to the government can take about one and a half years and since the year 2025 has already started, it should be believed that the recommendations of the 8th Pay Commission can be implemented in the second half of the year 2026.
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