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After the cabinet meeting, Union Minister Ashwani Vaishnav informed the journalists about the decisions.
The Central Government on Thursday approved the formation of the Eighth Pay Commission for central employees. The recommendations of the commission will come into effect from 2026. This information was given by Union Minister Ashwani Vaishnav after the cabinet meeting. He said- Seventh Pay Commission was implemented in 2016, its recommendations will continue till 2026.
The 7th Pay Commission came into effect from January 1, 2016. About 1 crore people were benefited from this. Pay Commission is implemented every 10 years. It is expected that Modi government will implement the 8th Pay Commission from January 1, 2026. This will increase the minimum salary and pension of central employees.
Apart from this, Vaishnav said that the Central Government will build a third launch pad at the Rocket Launching Center of Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) located in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh. It will be built at a cost of Rs 3985 crore. This decision will help in taking forward the New Generation Launch Vehicle program. Historic missions like Chandrayaan and Mangalyaan have been launched from here.
What will happen after the implementation of 8th Pay Commission… Know from two questions…
Question: What difference will the arrival of the 8th Pay Commission have on the salary?
answer: The central government brings a new pay commission every 10 years. Currently the 7th Pay Commission is going on, its tenure will end on 31 December 2025. The 8th Pay Commission will come into effect from the year 2026.
The pay matrix of the 8th Pay Commission will be prepared using a fitment factor of 1.92. Understand it like this – there are 18 levels of salary of central government employees. The basic salary of Level-1 employees is Rs 18,000 with grade pay of Rs 1800. It can be increased to Rs 34,560 under the 8th Pay Commission. Similarly, in the Central Government, Cabinet Secretary level officers get a maximum basic salary of Rs 2.5 lakh under Level-18. This may increase to approximately Rs 4.8 lakh.
Question: How much will the pension increase due to increase in salary under the 8th Pay Commission?
answer: If the 8th Pay Commission is implemented in January 2026, the minimum salary of central employees is estimated to be Rs 34,560. If we add the year 2004, the first batch of employees who have completed 25 years in service will retire in 2029.
Now suppose after the implementation of the 8th Pay Commission, the basic salary of a Level-1 employee has become Rs 34,560, then 50% of its amount is Rs 17,280. According to this, the employee will get an amount of Rs 17,280 + DR as pension. However, it will be only in rare cases that an employee, after joining a job at Level-1, remains at the same level till retirement. This level keeps increasing from time to time as per promotions and other rules. Therefore, the employee will get much more money as pension.
At the same time, the basic salary of Level-18 employees will be Rs 4.80 lakh. 50% of this total amount of Rs 2.40 lakh + DR will be given as pension.
Third launch pad project will be ready in 4 years
Ashwini Vaishnav said that under the Third Launch Pad Project (TLP), ISRO aims to establish infrastructure for Next Generation Launch Vehicles (NGLV) at Sriharikota. Another reason behind the launch of this project is that ISRO wants to keep the second launch pad of Sriharikota as a standby launch pad. It also aims to increase the launch capacity for future Indian human spaceflight missions.
The architecture of the TLP project is designed to be universal and adaptable to support not only the NGLV but also the semi-cryogenic stage of the LVM-3 vehicles and larger versions of the NGLV. The Third Launch Pad Project is targeted to be established in a period of 48 months or 4 years.
First launch pad built 30 years ago, second launch pad 20 years ago
The Indian Space Transportation System completely depends on two launch pads. First Launch Pad (FLP) and Second Launch Pad (SLP). The First Launch Pad (FLP) was built for the PSLV 30 years ago and is still being used to launch the PSLV and SSLV today. The Second Launch Pad (SLP) was built primarily for the GSLV and LVM3, but also serves as a backup for the PSLV.
SLP has been in operation for last 20 years and has successfully launched many commercial and national missions of PSLV and LVM3, including Chandrayaan-3 mission. Now SLP is ready to launch human rated LVM3 for Gaganyaan mission. is being done.
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