Overview

• As of July 2025 the commission remains unconstituted with no gazette notification, chairman appointment or finalized Terms of Reference despite January Cabinet approval.
• The Department of Personnel and Training has extended for the third time the application deadline for under-secretary posts under the panel to July 31.
• The Railway Senior Citizens Welfare Society and central employee unions have written formal letters to Prime Minister Modi and the DoPT demanding a clear timeline and transparency on the commission’s scope.
• Stakeholders warn that the delay jeopardizes the planned January 1, 2026 rollout and could push implementation of salary and pension hikes, based on a projected fitment factor rise from 2.57 to 2.86, into 2027.
• Employee and pensioner groups caution that prolonged procedural bottlenecks risk mounting arrears, eroding morale and undermining the decennial cycle that guides pay and pension revisions for over 10 million beneficiaries.