Display of artworks on "ନାରୀର ସ୍ଵାଭିମାନ" during celebration of International Women's Day 2026 by OSSA

Inviting views/suggestions on pay structure, allowances, pension and service conditions in respect of the 8th Central Pay Commission

Government of India have constituted the Eighth Central Pay Commission (8th CPC) to examine the existing structure of pay, allowances, pensions and other service conditions of Central Government employees and to make recommendations thereon. In this regard, the Commission has circulated a detailed Questionnaire seeking inputs/views from stakeholders including Governments, institutions and individuals. 

2. The Questionnaire covers various issues relating to pay structure, allowances, pension, performance incentives and other service conditions. The same is available on the portal of the Commission (https://8cpc.gov.in) / MyGov platform for submission of responses. 

3. Government of India have requested the State Governments to disseminate the said Questionnaire widely so as to enable all concerned stakeholders to submit their views.

4. Accordingly, Finance Department have requested all Departments / HoDs to circulate the message among all employees to submit their views.

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For Employees/Pensioners/Individuals and Associations/Unions of serving employees/retirees

https://www.mygov.in/mygov-survey/8th-central-pay-commission-questionnaire/

For Ministry/Department/UTs/Attached and Subordinate offices/Organizations under Ministry/Department

https://www.mygov.in/mygov-survey/8th-central-pay-commission-questionnaire-ministries-departments-and-uts/

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       18 POINT QUESTIONNIRES       

Q1 : Implementation of the recommendations of a Pay Commission has macro economic impacts. Some of these are positive in terms of boost to consumption and savings whilst others are negative in terms of the higher fiscal deficit, inflationary potential & crowding out of other expenditure such as for overall development & public welfare. Decisions in this regard involve choices.

Based on current state of the economy & the country’s aspirations, what should be the guiding philosophy which must underpin the overall approach of the 8 CPC?

Q2. Pay determination in organisations including Government involves “horizontal relativity” i.e. for analogous posts across domains/cadres being placed in the same level/scale and “vertical relativity” i.e. on promotion, transition to a higher scale/band of pay.

Relativity within different posts of Government has been broadly established over time. However, relativity/positioning between pay and perquisites in Government and the private sector is less established. How should the 8ᵗʰ CPC assess/evaluate relativity between pay & perquisites in Government and the public/private sector?

Q3. Should 8th CPC consider uniform horizontal relativity across all government departments, or should it consider sector-specific benchmarking where government functions are compared with their respective industry peers?

For instance, should compensation for government engineers be benchmarked against private sector engineering firms, financial officers against the BFSI sector, and healthcare professionals against private healthcare?

What would be the advantages and implementation considerations of such an approach?

Q4. Security of tenure, a training regimen, housing, leave encashment, predictable increments, medical coverage, time bound progression, inflation indexed salary, retirement benefits are certain features associated with most jobs in Government.

How should these be factored in while crafting a compensation matrix and relative positioning vis-à-vis the private sector?

Q5. Government employment is part of the organized sector. A far larger proportion of the job force is in the informal sector and the gig economy.

What influence do you think entry level pay scales implemented by Government have on compensation practices in the informal or gig sector?

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Q6. Salaries in Government have a distinct element of compensation for length of service (increment, usually annual), an element of neutralization for changes in cost of living/inflation (dearness allowance) and an element for higher responsibilities based on seniority/merit (pay scale on promotion).

In that context, what do you think the “fitment factor” adopted by Pay Commissions should represent?

What should such a fitment factor principally aim for?

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Q7. Salary of a Secretary in the Central Government typically represents the apex or the pinnacle i.e., the highest end of the scale.

What should be the principle for determining this?

Should there be a variable pay component for such position?

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Q8. How can pay scales for all Group A Services be fixed so as to attract candidates of the requisite caliber?

Should pay scales be more attractive at entry point or later, after a few years in service?

What principles should guide such differentiation to ensure competitive positioning for talent-critical roles while maintaining fiscal prudence?

Q9. How should rates and frequency of increments in respect of different scales of pay be determined?

Should these be uniform or vary across scales/time periods during service?

Q10. Over the course of time, many allowances have been introduced or rationalized based on specific nature of work, expenses such as on travel, compensation for hardship/risk/peculiarities associated with place of posting etc. Most of these are partially inflation indexed.

An alternative approach has been the Cafeteria Approach followed by Central Public Sector Enterprises (CPSEs), wherein except for a handful of allowances, executives choose from a set of perquisites & allowances, subject to an overall ceiling of basic pay.

Which approach do you think is more appropriate for Central Government employees?

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Q11. The Seventh Pay Commission had assessed that in January 2014, there were about 47 lakh serving Central Government personnel. This included CAPF, Railways & Defence forces.

The number of pensioners was just short of 52 lakh. In 2025–26, the number of Central Government personnel stands at about 50 lakh, while the number of pensioners is almost 70 lakh.

The increase in the number of pensions has created additional demands on Government’s Budget.

What approaches could help satisfy reasonable expectations of pensioners whilst keeping the fiscal impact within manageable limits?

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Q12. The Seventh Pay Commission was constituted in 2014 and implemented from 1.1.2016. The period since then has been marked by a lower trajectory of inflation, compared to earlier decades.

This is also reflected in the All India Consumer Price Index (Industrial Workers) which is used for DA calculation.

Should the 8th CPC explore a hybrid indexation approach that factors in both inflation protection and formal sector wage growth trends?

What proportion might be reasonable for each component, and what implementation considerations would arise?

What are your expectations on inflation/CPI increase over the next 10 years?

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Q13. Railways, CAPF and Defence forces typically account for about 70% of Central Government personnel.

What particular considerations, monetary or non-monetary, should be factored in while determining their pay & allowances?

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Q14. Scientists work in certain specialized streams/departments such as Department of Space, Department of Atomic Energy etc.

What should be appropriate benchmarks to be kept in mind for fixing their emoluments?

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Q15. Military Service Pay is currently admissible to personnel of Armed Forces. This was in recognition of the special nature of their duties.

In that context, and given the changing nature of jobs, how should the pay of soldiers, sailors and airforce personnel be determined?

How should it relate to the starting salary in Government or the pay of a constable in CAPF/Police?

Q16. The nation has many more military pensioners than serving military personnel. In 2025–26, outgo on Defence Pensions is likely to be higher than the outgo on Defence salary and allowances.

As overall defence pension bill increases, in line with projections, impact will be visible on equipment and arms purchase, their maintenance and modernization of defence forces.

What changes would you recommend to contain increases in defence manpower costs and its pension bill?

Q17. Productivity Linked Bonus (PLB) is paid to some employees of Government such as Railways, Postal staff whilst Non-Productivity Linked Bonus is given to specified Central Government employees including some in Armed Forces.

How can the Bonus structure be reimagined for rewarding excellence in productivity & performance?

Should PLB / Ad-hoc Bonus continue to be given on uniform basis (e.g., 60 days of salary for all) or be differentiated based on individual performance?

Q18. Contractual appointments in the form of lateral entry have been tried during the last few years.

Do you think this should be expanded and other practices such as part-time work, flexi-time etc. be introduced in Government at middle/higher levels to tap a bigger talent pool?

What could be the pros and cons of doing so?

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Server Maintenance of HRMS Website 14-16 March, 2026

HRMS website will not be available on 14.03.2026 (9:00 AM) to 16.03.2026 (9:00 PM) due to scheduled server maintenance.

 

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Celebration of Women's Day by OSSA today

 

9th March, 2026 (Monday)
Mini Stadium, Lokseva Bhawan

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Outdoor Games 

(Music Chair,  Tug of War, Bucket Ball, Target Arrow)

Artwork Exhibition 

Formal Meeting - Prize Distribution 

Cultural Program - Dinner

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Chief Guest
Smt Pravati Parida, 

Hon'ble Deputy Chief Minister, Odisha

Measures to prevent rush of expenditure towards the fag end of the Financial Year 2025-26

 

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OSSA celebrates International Women's Day 2026

Odisha Secretariat Service Association (OSSA) has planned for celebration of International Women's Day in Odisha Secretariat this year in a grand way for two days. Smt. Pravati Parida, Deputy Chief Minister, Odisha has given her kind consent to attend the event. (Download Programme.PDF)

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7th March, 2026 (Saturday) 

RD Conference Hall, Lokseva Bhawan

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Event 01👉02:00 PM : Creative Writing in Odia Language (200 Words / 45 Minutes) 
Event 02 👉02:45 PM : General Knowledge (20 Questions / 15 Minutes) 

Event 03 👉03:00 PM : Debate Competition in Odia Language (3 minutes each)

    (ବିଷୟ - ନାରୀ ସଶକ୍ତିକରଣ କ୍ଷେତ୍ରରେ ପରିବାର :  ବାଧକ ନା ବରଦାନ )

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9th March, 2026 (Monday) 

Secretariat Mini Stadium, Lokseva Bhawan

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Outdoor Games 👉 05:00 PM - 07:00 PM

• Bucket Ball, 
• Target Arrow, 
• Music Chair, 
• Tug of War

Special Attraction 👉 Artwork Exhibition (ନାରୀର ସ୍ବାଭିମାନ)

Formal Meeting 👉 07:00 PM - 08:00 PM

Cultural Program 👉 08:00 PM - 09:00 PM

• Short Play : କାଲିର ନାରୀ
• Solo or Duet Songs
• ଓଡିଶୀ ନୃତ୍ୟ 

Dinner 👉09:00 PM onwards

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Civil Service (Main) Examination 2025 result published

Based on the result of the written part of Civil Services Examination, 2025 held by the Union Public Service Commission in August, 2025 and the interviews for Personality Test held in December, 2025 – February, 2026, following is the list, in order of merit, of candidates who have been recommended for appointment to: 

(i) Indian Administrative Service; 

(ii) Indian Foreign Service; 

(iii) Indian Police Service; and 

(iv) Central Services, Group ‘A’ and Group ‘B’. 

2. A total number of 958 candidates have been recommended for appointment as per following break-up:

3. The candidature of 348 recommended candidates has been kept provisional.

4. Result of 02 candidates has been kept withheld.

5. The number of vacancies reported by the Government to be filled is as under: 

6. The Merit list of top 20 selected candidates are as follows.

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Rajya Sabha Election 2026

Election Commission has issued Notification for election of 4 nos. of Rajya Sabha Seats those are going to be vacated in 2026. Accordingly, five candidates have filed their nomination before the Returning Officer. The poll will be held on 16th March, 2026.

👉18.02.2026 : Press Release of ECI

👉26.02.2026 : Gazette Notification, ECI on schedule of election

👉26.02.2026 : Gazette Notification, ECI on appointment of RO, ARO

👉26.02.2026 : Gazette Notification, CEO, Odisha

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Election Schedule :

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Rajya Sabha seats to be vacated in 2026

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Election Procedure:

• Rajya Sabha members are elected by concerned State MLAs.
• MLAs vote in the Rajya Sabha elections in what is called proportional representation with the single transferable vote (STV) system. Each MLA’s vote is counted only once.
• In this system, MLAs don’t vote for each seat.Instead, the MLAs are given a paper with the names of all candidates. They have to give their order of preference for each candidate, marking 1,2,3… against their names.
• The ballot is open but MLAs have to show their ballots to an authorised agent from their party to prevent practices such as cross-voting. A vote cannot be counted if the ballot is not shown to the agent. Independent MLAs cannot show their ballot to anyone.
• If a qualifying number of voters choose a candidate as their first choice, he or she is elected. 
• The remaining votes go to the next candidates, but with a lesser value. So, MLAs also vote for candidates from other parties. 
• The candidate that gets rank 1 from an MLA secures a first preference vote. In order to win, a candidate needs a specific number of such first preference votes. This number depends on the strength of the state Assembly and the number of MPs it sends to Rajya Sabha.

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Election Formula 

• To win, a candidate should get a required number of votes which is known as quota or preference vote. 
• The formula of quota is = [Total number of votes/(Number of Rajya Sabha seats + 1)] + 1.
• Example : In current election for 4 seats of Rajyasabha from Odisha, the quota required to win each candidate = 147/(4+1) + 1 = 30.4
• If atleast 30 MLAs give first preference to a candidate, then he/ she will win.

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Returning Officer, Odisha

Returning Officer : Shri Satyabrata Rout, Secretary, OLA

Assistant Returning Officer : Shri Bidyadhar Majhi, Joint Secretary, OLA

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Contesting Candidates , Odisha

1. Manmohan Samal, BJP

2. Sujeet Kumar, BJP

3. Santrupta Mishra, BJD

4. Datteswar Hota, BJD

5. Dillip Ray, Independent 

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Seating members of Rajyasabha, Odisha

Consumer Price Index (Industrial Workers) increased by 0.4 points

 

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FNPO demands merging of 50% DA with basic pay

 

All India Civil Service Hockey : Odisha Women Team Champion

Odisha Secretariat Women Hockey Team became Champions in All India Civil Services Hockey Tournament-2025-26 held at Delhi defeating Central Secretariat by 5-3 in Final and  made  a "hat-trick of becoming champions"  in All India Civil Services Hockey Tournament.

Retirement of OSS officers on 28.02.2026

The following OSS officers are going to retire from Government Service on attaining age of superannuation w.e.f. 28.02.2026

• Smt T. Sujata Rao, Additional Secretary, WR Deptt.
• Nirmal Kumar Mishra, Joint Secretary, GA&PG Deptt.
• Kishore kumar Sahoo, Deputy Secretary, FE&CC Deptt.
• Durga Prasad Soren, Deputy Secretary, GA&PG Deptt.

Revised deadline for issue of sanction orders for release of funds till 09.03.2026

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Sad News : Shri Sibaram Hembram (OSS), Additional Secretary passed away

Sorry to inform all that one of our member in OSS Cadre, Sri Sibaram Hembram, Additional Secretary,  S&ME Dept has passed away last night due to Heart Attack. Shri Hembram was to retire from service on 31.07.2029. 

We pray god that may the soul find eternal peace and his family have patience during this time.

ଶ୍ରଦ୍ଧାଞ୍ଜଳି 

କ୍ୟାପିଟାଲ ହସ୍ପିଟାଲରେ ଶବ ବ୍ୟବଛେଦ ପରେ ଆପରାହ୍ଣ 3:45 ରେ ସଚିବାଳୟ ପଛ ଗେଟ ନିକଟକୁ ସ୍ବର୍ଗତ ଶିବରାମ ହେମ୍ବ୍ରମ ଙ୍କ ପାର୍ଥିବ ଶରୀରକୁ ଅଣାଯାଇଥିଲା. ଶେଷ ଦର୍ଶନ ପାଇଁ ବିଦ୍ୟାଳୟ ଗଣଶିକ୍ଷା ବିଭାଗର ସଚିବ ଏନ. ତିରୁମାଲା ନାୟକଙ୍କ ସମେତ ସମସ୍ତ ଅଧିକାରୀ /କର୍ମଚାରୀ ଏବଂ ଓଡିଶା ସଚିବାଳୟ ସେବା ସଙ୍ଘ ର ସାଧାରଣ ସମ୍ପାଦକ ପ୍ରତ୍ୟୁଷ କୁମାର କଅଁର ତଥା ସମସ୍ତ କର୍ମକର୍ତ୍ତା ଓ ସଚିବାଳୟ ର ଶତାଧିକ ଅଧିକାରୀ ଉପସ୍ଥିତ ରହି ପୁଷ୍ପ ଅର୍ପଣ କରିଥିଲେ. ତାଙ୍କର ମରଶରୀର କେନ୍ଦୁଝର ଜିଲ୍ଲାର ନିଜ ଗ୍ରାମକୁ ନିଆଯାଇ ସତ୍କାର କରାଯିବ.

All India Civil Service Chess : Odisha Women won bronze

ALL INDIA CIVIL SERVICE CHESS TOURNAMENT 2025-26

New Delhi 

Monthly Literary Meet (February 2026) of Odisha Sachibalaya Lekhaka Parishad.

 ଓଡ଼ିଶା ସଚିବାଳୟ ଲେଖକ ପରିଷଦର 
ଫେବୃୟାରୀ ମାସର ସାରସ୍ୱତ ଆସର ଅନୁଷ୍ଠିତ 

ଭୁବନେଶ୍ୱର - ତା ୨୫.୦୨ । ଓଡ଼ିଶା ସଚିବାଳୟ ଲେଖକ ପରିଷଦର ଫେବୃୟାରୀ ମାସର ସ୍ୱାରସ୍ବତ ଆସର ଲୋକସେବା ଭବନ ଠାରେ ଅନୁଷ୍ଠିତ ହୋଇଯାଇଛି ।  ଏହି ଅବସରରେ  ଅନୁଷ୍ଠିତ ସାହିତ୍ୟ ସଭାରେ ସଭାପତିତ୍ୱ କରିଥିଲେ ସୁଶାନ୍ତ ଧର । ସଂଯୋଜନା କରିଥିଲେ ବିଜନବାଳା  ପାଟଯୋଷି ।  ବନ୍ଦିତା ଦାଶ,କାହ୍ନୁ ଚରଣ ଦାସ, ପୁଷ୍ପାଞ୍ଜଳି ବିଶୋୟୀ,ସୁଶାନ୍ତ ଧର,ପୀୟୂଷ ରଞ୍ଜନ ପରିଡା,ସଞ୍ଜୟ ଆନନ୍ଦ କୁମାର ତ୍ରିପାଠୀ ,ସ୍ମୃତି ନାଥ ଓ ଲୋକନାଥ ସାହୁ  ସ୍ୱରଚିତ  କବିତା ପାଠ କରିଥିଲେ ।  ବିଜନବାଳା ପାଟଯୋଷି , ମୌସୁମୀ ଦାସ ,ରଶ୍ମିତା ମହାନ୍ତ ଓ ସର୍ବଜିତ ଶ୍ରୀଚନ୍ଦନ ସ୍ୱରଚିତ ଗଳ୍ପ ପାଠ କରିଥିଲେ । ସଭା ଶେଷରେ ଧନ୍ୟବାଦ ଅର୍ପଣ କରିଥିଲେ  ବନ୍ଦିତା ଦାଶ । ପରିଷଦର ୟୁ ଟ୍ୟୁବ ପତ୍ରିକା  "Pahacha" ର ପ୍ରଚାର ପ୍ରସାର ପାଇଁ ସମସ୍ତେ ଯତ୍ନବାନ ହେବାକୁ ପ୍ରସ୍ତାବ ଗୃହୀତ ହୋଇଥିଲା ।

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Promotion of Under Secretary to the rank of Deputy Secretary

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Extension of dateline for submission of Annual Property Statement for the year 2025

 

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All India Civil Service Cricket 2025-26 : Odisha entered quarter final

Odisha Secretariat cricket team defeated Tamilnadu in a superb knockout  match of All India Civil Service Cricket Tournament 2025-26 played yesterday at New Delhi. Earlier, Odisha has defeated AICS Team and Utta Pradesh Team in this tournament.

Click here for updates / Scorecard @ Cricheroes