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- Eighth Pay Commission meeting to be held on 22-23 June 2026 in Lucknow.
- This meeting will take suggestions on salary, allowances and pension reforms.
- Employees are demanding 3-4 fitment factor and increase in pension.
- Justice Ranjana Desai is the commission chairperson, who will report in 2027.
8th Pay Commission: As time is passing, the impatience of central employees and pensioners regarding the 8th Pay Commission is also increasing. Meanwhile, a big meeting of the 8th Central Pay Commission is going to be held in Lucknow. According to the information given earlier on the official website of the 8th Pay Commission, the next meeting will be held in Lucknow on June 22 and 23, 2026. Its objective is to meet central employees, pensioners and various employee unions in the Uttar Pradesh region and take suggestions from them on reforms in salary revision, allowances and pension structure.
What is the agenda of the meeting?
This will be the first major meeting after the deadline for submission of memorandum ends on June 15, 2026. The panel, led by Commission Chairperson Ranjana Prakash Desai, will talk face-to-face with employee unions of Railways, Postal, Defense and Income Tax departments in Uttar Pradesh and its surrounding areas. In this, the proposal of ‘Unique Memo ID’ submitted by the organizations will also be discussed.
Before this, meetings have also been held in Hyderabad, Delhi and Srinagar. The purpose of these meetings of the Commission is to find out the economic condition of the employees of every sector and their expectations at the ground level and to mention them in their report. After Lucknow, meetings are also expected to be held in Bengal and Odisha in July. A report will be prepared on the basis of meetings held with employee unions in all these places and the suggestions received from them, whose recommendations can come by April 2027.
What are the demands of the employees?
- Employees are demanding fitment factor between 3-4 under the Eighth Pay Commission. If it is approved, the minimum basic salary may increase from Rs 18000 to Rs 50000.
- The Pension Association proposes to increase the minimum pension to 67% of the last salary and increase additional allowances for senior citizens.
- There is also a demand for improvement in the rules of promotion and increment. At present, a demand has been raised to make the financial upgradation available only three times in a service of 30 years, every six years. There is also a demand for 5% increment.
Who is in charge of the commission?
The Eighth Pay Commission is being headed by former Supreme Court judge Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai. Its other members include Professor Pulak Ghosh of IIM Bangalore and Pankaj Jain (retired IAS), who are working as member-secretaries.
This panel has been entrusted with the responsibility of reviewing the salary structure, allowances, pension, conditions of service and other related aspects related to central government employees and pensioners. One of the most important aspects of Pay Commission is the ‘fitment factor’, which changes the basic pay. If we look at the previous record, the Sixth Pay Commission had recommended a fitment factor of 1.86, while the Seventh Pay Commission had recommended a fitment factor of 2.57. Now all eyes are on the fitment factor of the Eighth Pay Commission.
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