Eighth Pay Commission
8th Pay Commission: At present, the eyes of lakhs of central employees and pensioners across the country are fixed on only one news, the 8th Pay Commission. For some time, there was a lot of discussion in the corridors that the government can give a big New Year gift to the employees by implementing the new pay commission from January 1, 2026. Amidst this period of expectations and speculations, the Central Government has now made the situation completely clear in the Parliament. This latest statement of the Finance Ministry is going to put an end to all the speculations which were floating on social media and among the employees.
During the winter session of Parliament on Monday, December 8, 2025, Minister of State for Finance Pankaj Chaudhary, in a written reply, gave important information regarding the date of implementation of the Eighth Pay Commission. When he was asked whether the government would 8th Pay Commission (8th CPC) When the government is preparing to implement it, he said in clear words that “The government will decide the date of implementation, but no decision has been taken yet.”
It may take 18 months for recommendations to come.
Answering the questions arising in the minds of the employees, the Minister of State for Finance also highlighted the time frame of the process. He told that eighth pay commission has already been formed and the Finance Ministry has also released the ‘Term of Reference’ (ToR) for it on 3 November 2025.
However, the most important thing is that the Commission may take about 18 months from the date of notification to prepare its report and submit it to the government. The Commission will decide its own methodology and procedure. This can be directly interpreted to mean that it will take time for the recommendations of the commission to come and then for the government to ratify them. In such a situation, it would be premature to consider the date of January 1, 2026 as ‘set in stone’.
Direct impact on 50 lakh families
The scope of the Eighth Pay Commission is very wide. According to the data shared by the government, there are a total of 50.14 lakh central employees and about 69 lakh pensioners in the country. That means, the economic condition of more than 1.25 crore families directly depends on the recommendations of this commission.
A question was also raised in Parliament whether the government has made arrangements for money for this in the upcoming budget? On this, the government, keeping a practical stand, said that only after the commission gives its recommendations and the government accepts them, the necessary funds to implement them will be arranged in the budget. This means that talking about ‘fund allocation’ right now would be a matter before the process.
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