Shiva Gopal Mishra, normal secretary of the Workers Facet of the Nationwide Council (Joint Consultative Equipment), has dismissed as false a wave of social media messages claiming that pensions for sure classes of central authorities retirees are set to be stopped or excluded from revision beneath the eighth Pay Fee.
In a video message posted on X on Saturday, Mishra stated a number of pensioners had contacted him straight after messages started circulating in his identify suggesting that pension payouts would stop, or that solely staff retiring after 2026 can be eligible for pension and its revision.
🚨 Message from Shiva Gopal Mishra Ji
Shiva Gopal Mishra Ji has clarified that rumours about stopping pensions or denying pension revision to sure retirees are utterly baseless. Pensioners can stay assured that pensions will proceed frequently, with enhancements being… pic.twitter.com/OMPEr6t3yD
— eighth pay fee (@8thpaycommision) August 29, 2026
“All this stuff are utterly baseless, and you shouldn’t consider them,” Mishra stated.
“We’re at the moment discussing this topic within the Pay Fee, and I’m absolutely hopeful that pensioners, whether or not from earlier or later, will certainly proceed to obtain their pensions, and there might be steady enchancment in them.”
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Mishra, who additionally serves as AIRF’s normal secretary, stated he had no technique of restraining the channels spreading such claims however urged pensioners to rely solely on info issued by means of official union handles. “Messages from different channels spreading such deceptive information don’t want consideration,” he stated.
The eighth Central Pay Fee, headed by former Supreme Court docket decide Ranjana Prakash Desai, had its phrases of reference authorised by the Union Cupboard in October 2025, and is anticipated to submit its report inside 18 months, masking wage and pension revisions for near 50 lakh central authorities staff and 69 lakh pensioners.
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The NC-JCM Workers Facet, in a memorandum to Prime Minister Narendra Modi in November 2025, had sought amendments to the phrases of reference, together with the specific inclusion of present pensioners and household pensioners throughout the scope of pension revision, together with a directive to the fee to advocate an implementation date.
The union physique has continued to press these calls for with the fee in subsequent months, alongside broader charter-of-demands discussions on fitment elements and allowances for serving staff.
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