Overview
- Employee unions urged a five-year pay review cycle during late April consultations in Delhi, arguing a decade-long gap fails to keep up with inflation.
- The commission will hold regional meetings in Hyderabad in May, followed by Srinagar and Ladakh in June, to gather on-the-ground input.
- The deadline for stakeholders to file memoranda has been extended to May 31, 2026, giving unions and associations more time to refine their demands.
- Six months into its 18-month term, the panel has hired contract staff and begun evidence work on salaries, fitment factors, allowances and pensions.
- A final report is tentatively expected by May 2027 and could reshape pay and retirement benefits for about 50 lakh employees and more than 66 lakh pensioners, with fiscal limits likely to influence the outcome.