New Delhi, Aug. 14 -- The 8th central pay commission (CPC) this week modified guidelines on eligibility criteria and essential qualifications for vacancies of its contract-based consultant roles, a notice posted to the official website showed.

Eligible applicants can send in their entries through a form on the CPC's website, according to the posted notice. It added that the vacancies are for a fixed period and require "high end services or for attending to specific and time-bound jobs of the Commission".

"The full-time consultants shall not be permitted to take up any other assignment during the period of consultancy with the Commission. The engagement of a consultant is of temporary nature, and it can be cancelled at any time without a...