Question on the date of implementation of 8th CPC, will the 10 year tradition be broken?

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8th Pay Commission Latest Update: The date of implementation has not been written in the ToR of the 8th Pay Commission, which has increased the concern among employees and pensioners whether the traditional 10-year salary-pension cycle may change. Know what you are worried about..

8th Pay Commission: New concerns have increased among employees and pensioners across the country regarding the 8th Pay Commission. The central government released the Terms of Reference (ToR) on November 3, but it did not specify the date from which the commission’s recommendations would come into effect. Till now, from 4th to 7th Pay Commission, every commission has started from 1st January. For this reason, employees fear that this time the tradition which will be implemented from January 1, 2026, may be broken?

Why are employees and pensioners worried?

The period of 7th Pay Commission ends on 31 December 2025. Everyone expected that the 8th Pay Commission would come into effect from January 1, 2026. But there is no mention of this date in ToR. The unions claim that ‘the absence of a date could mean either a delay or a change in the 10-year cycle.’ As soon as the ToR was released, many organizations raised objections. These include All India Defense Employees Federation (AIDEF), Central Government Employees and Workers Confederation (CCGEW), Bharat Pensioners Society (BPS). All of them have written letters to Prime Minister Modi and Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman demanding immediate changes in ToR.

7 big objections and demands of BPS

  1. The date of January 1, 2026 should be written clearly. Till now all Pay Commissions have been applicable from this date.
  2. The word ‘Unfunded Cost’ should be removed. BPS says that due to this, pension is being described as a burden, whereas the Supreme Court has accepted it as a constitutional right.
  3. Clear rules for pension revision should be made and the difference between old and new pensioners should be eliminated.
  4. The commission should also give suggestions on the demand for OPS by abolishing the NPS of 26 lakh employees recruited after 2004.
  5. Describing GDS as the backbone of the Postal Service, there is a demand to include them in the 8th Pay Commission.
  6. Demand for immediate 20% Interim Relief (IR) due to rising inflation.
  7. Major changes in CGHS like extending CGHS to autonomous workers, new CGHS centers at district level, cashless and easy treatment and implementation of pending recommendations.

Strong reaction from AIDEF and CCGEW

AIDEF said, ‘It is very wrong to keep 69 lakh pensioners out of the purview of the commission.’ At the same time, CCGEW has appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi that, ‘Many parts of ToR should be changed immediately, otherwise there will be loss of employees.’

Is the government preparing to change the 10 year salary-pension cycle?

This is the biggest question that is arising. There are three reasons for this, firstly, there is no mention of January 1, 2026 in the ToR, secondly, words like ‘Unfunded Cost’ and thirdly, the priority of pensioners seems to be less. There is a fear that perhaps the government wants to change the 10-year salary-pension revision cycle. Till now the government has not given any official explanation, but the opposition from the organizations of employees and pensioners is continuously increasing.

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