Major staff organisations have raised concerns over the proposed Terms of Reference (ToR) for the 8th Central Pay Commission (CPC), citing gaps that overlook nearly 69 lakh central government pensioners and family pensioners. The Confederation of Central Government Employees & Workers (CCGEW), the All India Defence Employees Federation (AIDEF), and the Bharat Pensioners’ Samaj (BPS) have written to the Prime Minister urging immediate amendments.

The unions claim the current ToR lacks clarity on pension revision, pension parity, and the structure of future pension schemes.

Core objections: pensions treated as “fiscal burden”

Unions have criticised the ToR’s reference to the “unfunded cost of non-contributory pension schemes,” calling the term inappropriate, insensitive, misleading, and i

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