New Delhi, June 3 -- The 8th pay commission is conducting multiple state visits and meetings with employee representative groups, unions and stakeholders to gather views ahead of its own recommendations on pay hikes, allowances, salary structure, and other factors.

Chaired by former Supreme Court Justice Ranjana Prakash
Desai, the panel also includes Pankaj Jain, former IAS, as Member-Secretary, and Professor Pulak Ghosh, tenured Professor of Finance, Member of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister, as a Member of the Commission.

The panel in May invited applications from candidates for full-time and part-time consultant roles on a one-year contractual basis, "to make recommendations related to emolument structure of...