New Delhi, Nov. 4 -- One year since being commissioned, the 8th Central Pay Commission (CPC) has now completed around 66% of its tenure timeline. Posting on its official social media account, the panel noted that employees and pensioners can await the final recommendations, including fitment factor and revised pay structure.

The commission's decisions are expected to benefit over 1 crore people, including around 50 lakh central government employees and close to 65 lakh pensioners, including defence and railway personnel and retirees.

Chaired by former Supreme Court Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai, with Pankaj Jain, a former IAS officer as Member-Secretary, and Professor Pulak Ghosh, a tenured Professor of Finance and Member of the Economi...