The 8th Pay Commission has announced its meeting schedule for Mumbai, Maharashtra, where it will meet central government employees, pensioners and other stakeholders on October 22 and 23, 2026. The pay commission had already announced the meeting schedule for Bengaluru, where it will meet stakeholders on October 7 and 8. It has completed its September round of discussions in Chandigarh, Chennai, Puducherry and Jaipur.
In all such discussions, employee bodies have raised issues of salary and fitment factor prominently. These two will be the key elements in central government employees’ basic salary revision.
