Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday permitted establishing the eighth Pay Fee to revise salaries of practically 50 lakh central authorities staff and allowances of 65 lakh pensioners.
Following is the timeline of the earlier seven pay commissions.
* 1st Pay Fee (Might 1946 – Might 1947)
Chairman: Srinivasa Varadacharia
Centered on rationalizing the pay construction after India’s independence
Launched the idea of the “residing wage”
Minimal wage: Rs 55/month; most wage: Rs 2,000/month
Beneficiaries: Round 1.5 million staff
* 2nd Pay Fee (August 1957 – August 1959)
Chairman: Jaganath Das
Centered on balancing the economic system and residing value
Advisable the minimal wage of Rs 80/month
Launched the ‘socialistic sample of society’
Beneficiaries: Roughly 2.5 million staff
* third Pay Fee (April 1970 – March 1973)
Chairman: Raghubir Dayal
Advisable minimal pay of Rs 185/month
Emphasised wage parity between private and non-private sectors
Addressed inequalities within the pay construction
Beneficiaries: About 3 million staff
* 4th Pay Fee (September 1983 – December 1986)
Chairman: P.N. Singhal Advisable a minimal wage of Rs 750/month.
Centered on decreasing disparities in salaries throughout rank.
Launched a performance-linked pay construction
Beneficiaries: Over 3.5 million staff
* fifth Pay Fee (April 1994 – January 1997)
Chairman: Justice S. Ratnavel Pandian
Advisable a minimal pay of Rs 2,550/month
Instructed decreasing the variety of pay scale
Centered on modernizing authorities workplace
Beneficiaries: Round 4 million staff
* sixth Pay Fee (October 2006 – March 2008)
Chairman: Justice B.N. Srikrishna
Launched Pay Bands and Grade Pay
Minimal wage: Rs 7,000/month; most wage: Rs 80,000/month
Emphasised performance-related incentive
Beneficiaries: Almost 6 million staff
* seventh Pay Fee (February 2014 – November 2016)
Chairman: Justice A Ok Mathur
Minimal pay raised to Rs 18,000/month; most pay Rs 2,50,000/month
Advisable a brand new pay matrix as an alternative of grade pay system
Centered on allowances and work-life steadiness
Beneficiaries: Over 10 million (together with pensioners)
* eighth Pay Fee introduced on sixteenth January 2025.