8th Pay Commission: Lakhs of central government employees are eagerly waiting for the increase in salary and pension in the 8th Pay Commission. In such a situation, will the central employees and pensioners not have to wait every 10 years for the increase in salary? In fact, employee organizations have raised a demand before the 8th Pay Commission to reduce the time for revision of salary and pension to 5 years. He says that inflation is increasing rapidly. In such a situation, depending on the old pay scale for 10 years reduces the purchasing power of the employees. Therefore, salary and pension revision should happen every five years.
5 year demand placed before 8th Pay Commission
This month, one year has been completed since the formation of the 8th Pay Commission. This is a three-member temporary commission, which is headed by Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai. The Commission will give its recommendations to the Central Government after listening to the employees and pensioners’ organizations.
Bharat Pensioners Society (BPS) had put forward 13 major demands in its memorandum given to the Commission on 7 August 2026. These also included the demand for revision of salary and pension every five years.
NC-JCM and railway pensioners also raised their voice
The staff side of the National Council-JCM has also expressed the need for salary revision of central employees every five years. The organization says that in view of inflation and changing economic conditions, salaries should be reviewed from time to time.
At the same time, Railway Senior Citizens Welfare Society (RSCWS) says that the long gap between pay commissions reduces the purchasing power of employees and pensioners. Apart from this, the Federation of National Postal Organizations (FNPO) has suggested creating a permanent pay review body instead of creating a new pay commission every 10 years.
Why is this change more important for pensioners?
This demand is even more important for pensioners. Employees get annual increment, but pensioners have no such option. To give them relief from inflation, changes in Dearness Relief (DR) are made twice a year. Bharat Pensioners Society has also demanded change in DA-DR every quarter on the basis of three-month average and full compensation for the impact of inflation. Also, if the dearness relief is more than 25%, it has been asked to consider the proposal of merging it with the basic pension.
Will the government change the 10 year rule?
At present, the demand for salary and pension revision every five years is only a proposal by employees and pensioners’ organizations. The 8th Pay Commission has not yet taken any final decision on this. In these memorandums, a detailed assessment of the additional burden on the government exchequer due to implementation of wage revision in five years has not been given.
However, after the recommendations of the commission come, the central government will consider them. Only after this will we know whether there will be changes in the 10 year old system or not.
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Source: ndtv.in
