8th Pay Commission memorandum deadline: NC-JCM highlights website glitches faced by employee unions, seeks extension of submission date

The April 30, 2026, deadline for 8^th Pay Commission memorandum submission is looming near and many central government employee groups have been facing technical difficulties while submitting their memorandum on the official website of the 8th CPC.

The National Council (Staff Side), Joint Consultative Machinery (NC-JCM) for central government employees, has raised this issue in a letter to the 8^th CPC, urging the commission to resolve 8th CPC website-related issues. NC-JCM has also requested the 8th Pay Commission to extend the memorandum submission deadline from April 30, 2026, to May 31, 2026, citing that many of their affiliates have lost valuable time because they couldn’t submit their memorandums.

Despite these concerns, the 8^th Pay Commission is still sticking to its deadline of April 30.


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What did NC-JCM write to 8^th Pay Commission?

What did NC-JCM write to the 8^th Pay Commission?

In a letter dated April 20, 2026, Shiva Gopal Mishra, secretary, NC-JCM, wrote to Pankaj Jain, member secretary, 8th Pay Commission, that the employee body has been facing technical issues while submitting its memorandum online.

“We have been trying for nine days to upload the memorandum prepared by the Staff Side of National Council (JCM) on nine themes/questions on the designated portal of the 8th CPC. The portal is not accepting the matter posted by us even though it is less than 10,000 characters each,” writes NC-JCM.

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“We are receiving similar complaints from all organisations and individuals from all over the country. This forced us to forward our memorandum through the E-mail of the member secretary and also to Manish Kumar, director,” the NC-JCM letter reads further.

Technical issues NC-JCM claims to have faced

The key central government employee body wrote that some of the technical problems being faced in uploading the memorandum on the 8^th CPC portal are-

1. After the receipt of OTP on the mobile, the e-mail is showing as ‘Hmmm… can’t reach this page’; ‘Check if there is a typo in innovationindia.mygov.in.’

2. After the submission of the memorandum, this message is being shown ‘Invalid input detected. HTML tags are not allowed. Please check the consent.’

3. Total sub themes/questions are 47, however, the available response fields are only 18.

What does NC-JCM want from the 8^th CPC?

NC-JCM wrote to the 8^th Pay Commission requesting them to rectify the technical issues and to make the 8^th CPC portal user-friendly.

The employee body further requested the Pay Commission to give an SOP for the step-by-step process to post the memorandum on the portal.

Why does NC-JCM want a deadline extension for memorandum submission?

NC-JCM writes that due to the technical problems, it will be very difficult for central government employee organisations, pensioners associations and individuals to post their respective memorandum on the 8th CPC portal.

“Alternatively, the memorandum may please be accepted in the PDF and MS Word formats in your e-mail. The last date for the submission of the memorandum may please be extended from April 30, 2026, to May 31, 2026,” says the letter.

What is the 8^th Pay Commission’s stand on extending the deadline?

However, the 8th Pay Commission in a message on its official website writes that the deadline for memorandum submission is April 30.

A message on the 8th Pay Commission's website reads, "The last date for submitting memorandum at commission's website (8cpc.gov.in) is April 30, 2026. However, unions/associations seeking an appointment for interacting with the Commission in Pune or during the first round of meetings in New Delhi may kindly submit the memorandum by April 20, 2026."

AIDEF also seeks memorandum submission deadline extension

C Srikumar, secretary, All India Defence Employees’ Federation (AIDEF), an employee body for civilian employees in Defence services, in a letter dated April 19, 2026, to the 8^th Pay Commission, has also highlighted the anomalies that AIDEF has been facing while submitting its memorandum on the 8^th CPC website.

Due to these glitches, AIDEF is also seeking an extension of the deadline for the submission of memorandum from April 30, 2026, to May 31, 2026.

49th meeting of NC-JCM to be held on May 11, 2026

In a letter dated April 21, 2026, the Ministry of Public Grievances and Pensions wrote to Shiva Gopala Mishra the 49th meeting of NC-JCM will be held on May 11, 2026, at 3 pm.

Amit Pankaj, director, JCA wrote, “I am directed to convey that the 49th meeting of the National Council (JCM) is scheduled to be held on May 11, 2026 (Monday) at 3.00 PM in the Conference Hall, Cabinet Secretariat, Sewa Teerth, New Delhi, under the chairmanship of cabinet secretary to discuss agenda items proposed by the staff side.”