New Delhi: In a huge relief to the central government employees and pensioners, the Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday approved the Terms of Reference (ToR) of the 8th Pay Commission . Approximately 50 lakh government employees and 65 lakh pensioners will be directly benefited from this decision. Taking the example of fitment factor and city category, let us try to understand from different examples whose salary can increase by how much.

The most important thing is related to the fitment factor, which the commission will review. It is a multiplier i.e. multiplier, from which the existing basic pay is multiplied to decide the new basic salary. Since there is no information about the fitment factor yet, we are using the last 7th pay commission as a base, whi

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