8th Pay Commission Extends Memorandum Submission Deadline to May 31, 2026

The 8th Pay Commission has extended the deadline for memorandum submission to May 31, 2026, a month after the NC-JCM requested the extension. While the new date accommodates many employee and pensioner groups, the commission will only accept online submissions via a specified link, rejecting all physical copies, PDFs, and emails.

A day after the National Council - Joint Consultative Machinery (NC-JCM) (staff side) requested the 8th Pay Commission to extend the deadline of memorandum submission from April 30, 2026, the 8th CPC today (Wednesday, April 29, 2026) extended the due date to May 31, 2026.

However, the Pay Commission did not adhere to NC-JCM's demand of allowing interested parties to submit the memorandum's PDF and MS Word copies online as well as hard copies offline.

In a message posted on its website, the 8th Pay Commission said, “The last date for the submission of responses is May 31, 2026 (Sunday). All submissions are to be made only through the link specified. Paper-based memoranda/hard copies/pdf/emails of the memorandum are not being considered/ entertained by the Commission.”

“Authorised/nominated nodal/sub-nodal officers of ministries, departments, UTs and offices under their administrative control who wish to submit their representation/ memorandum/suggestions to the 8th Central Pay Commission can do so in a structured format under “Ministry / Department / Union Territory (UT)” category,” the message further said.

In a meeting on Tuesday (April 28, 2026), NC-JCM requested the 8th Pay Commission chairperson Ranjana Prakash Desai and other members to extend the memorandum submission deadline from April 30, 2026, to May 31, 2026. The top central government employee body said that the deadline extension was needed since many employee organisations and pensioner associations were not able to submit their memorandum online.

Earlier, many employee and pensioners bodies had also requested to extend the deadline of the memorandum submission.

The memorandum is a document of employees and pensioners' expectations of pay, pension, allowance, fitment factor, insurance, etc., from the 8th Pay Commission. The memorandums also include work conditions of employees. For example, in the common memorandum on behalf of all employee and pensioner bodies, NC-JCM has demanded a 3.833 fitment factor and a minimum of Rs 69,000 basic pay from the 8th Pay Commission.

The 8th Pay Commission invites representations/memorandum/suggestions from central government employees – industrial and non-industrial, personnel belonging to the All India Services; personnel belonging to Defence Forces, personnel of Union Territories; officers and employees of the Indian Audit and Accounts Department, members of regulatory bodies (other than the RBI) set up under the Acts of Parliament, Officers and employees of the Supreme Court, officers and employees of the High Court whose expenditure is borne by Union Territories, judicial officers of the subordinate courts in Union Territories, pensioners, service associations/unions, central government ministries/departments/ organisations/Union Territories.