Former Supreme Court Justice Ashok Kumar Mathur has been appointed as the Chairman of the 7th Pay Commission. Petroleum and Natural Gas Secretary, Vivek Rae will be the full time Member and Director, National Institute of Public Finances and Policy, Dr Rathin Roy will be its part-time Member. Officer on Special Duty in the Department of Expenditure, Ms. Meena Agarwal will be the Secretary of the Pay panel.

The Commission has been mandated to submit its report in two years time and its recommendations would be implemented from 1st of January 2016.

AIR Correspondent reports that the government constitutes Pay Commission almost every ten years to revise the pay scales of its employees and often these are adopted by states after some modification.

The newly appointed Commission will revise the salaries of over 50 lakh Central government employees and about 30 lakh pensioners.