Last Updated:February 11, 2026, 18:22 IST

The government has officially launched the 8th Pay Commission website after forming the commission.

It is inviting suggestions from ministries, employees and pensioners. (Representative Image)

The government has opened a fresh window for central government employees and pensioners to share their views on salaries, pensions, and allowances. With a new official portal now live, people linked to government service are closely watching how this process may shape future pay revisions.

The move has generated interest among serving employees, retirees, and various stakeholders who could be impacted by the 8th Pay Commission’s recommendations. Many are now keen to understand who can participate and how they can submit their inputs.

Government Launches 8th Pay Commission Website

A dedicated website for the 8th Pay Commission, https://8cpc.gov.in/, has been launched after the commission was formally constituted. Through this platform, the panel is now inviting feedback from ministries, departments, government employees, pensioners, and other concerned groups.

According to the website, the 8th Central Pay Commission is seeking opinions and inputs to help it make better-informed decisions. To collect responses in a structured way, an online questionnaire with 18 questions has been made available on the MyGov portal.

The website states: “The 8th Central Pay Commission solicits views/opinions/inputs for being better informed. These inputs are being sought in a structured manner through a Questionnaire with 18 questions hosted on the MyGov.in web portal.”

It has also been assured that respondents’ identities will remain confidential. According to the website, all responses will be analysed collectively and no individual name will be disclosed.

Who Can Send Suggestions

According to the website, suggestions have been invited from a broad group of people and institutions linked to government service. This includes employees of central ministries and departments, staff from Union Territories, judicial officers, court officials, and members of regulatory bodies.

Employee unions, retired government staff, pensioners, researchers, academicians, and individual citizens can also share their views. Authorised or nominated nodal officers from ministries, departments, and government offices are also eligible to submit inputs.

Deadline To Submit Responses

The last date to send feedback to the 8th Pay Commission is March 16. After this, the survey will no longer accept submissions.

How To Send Feedback

Those wishing to submit their suggestions must do so through the MyGov link:

https://www.mygov.in/mygov-survey/8th-central-pay-commission-questionnaire/. Users need to log in or sign up using their mobile number or email ID, followed by a six-digit OTP.

The government has clearly stated that only online responses through the MyGov portal will be accepted. “All responses should be through the MyGov portal. Paper based physical response, emails or pdf response are not being considered by the Commission,” according to the website.

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Mr Prasad said there had been a “clear, gradual change” over the past decade in people falling out of the workforce, saying there are “far fewer people in work than there could be” and calling for significant change from the government in how it tackles the issue.

“We have been sleepwalking into a quiet epidemic that is keeping millions of people out of work,” said Mr Prasad.

“My perspective from leading a major employer in this country is that far fewer people are in work than there could be.

“This means that instead of investing in parts of national life that might stimulate investment and growth into the wider economy, we are spending an ever-increasing proportion of our national income on out-of-work benefits. We cannot afford to be a country that lets the next generation languish on the sideline.”

Tesco employs around 300,000 people and is likely the largest private employer in the country.

His comments come as the UK unemployment rate currently sits at 5.1 per cent – the highest level since the tail end of the pandemic in January 2021.

The Bank of England has forecast that it could rise even higher to hit the same peak as during mid-2020, reaching 5.3 per cent, while a recent survey of economists suggested two-thirds believed unemployment could rise up to 5.5 per cent.

Speaking at a Resolution Foundation event, the Tesco chief said there were multiple reasons why joblessness had increased but pointed to official forecasts which show that Britain will spend over £330bn on welfare this year, which the Office for Budget Responsibility predicts will grow to more than £400bn by 2030-31.

Labour have made a sustained push to get more people back into jobs, including plans for large scale welfare reform and altered rates within Universal Credit.

The UK CEO also suggested Tesco faced an outsized hit when the cost of employment rose – which includes increases in employer national insurance contributions and rising in minimum and living wages requirements – as it has such a large number of staff on its books, noting the firm’s “biggest expenditure is the salaries and the wages” of employees.

He criticised regulation and increasing the costs to firms of bringing jobs to the economy, while hinting that they hampered the ability to hire even more people facing a diverse range of circumstances.

“Each time you add a new cost, money has to come from somewhere. In the past five years, we’ve already seen all sorts of new costs for labour, costs for energy and costs for regulation.

“We [the retail sector] provide some of the most flexible work opportunities in the labour market, supporting people to enter the workforce for the first time or re-enter after they’ve taken time out for either childcare or caring,” Mr Prasad added.

This week, Tesco announced 70 new convenience stores were set to open, including some which have taken over prominent sites formerly used by Amazon Fresh.