Fitment Factor Hike 2025: Yes. Positive development extending benefits to millions of central government personnel. The expectation is that Fitment Factor will be reviewed in 2025, resulting in a considerable increase in salaries as the base salary. Employees across different departments have highly awaited this major enhancement, as it is expected to bring temporary financial help due to inflating costs and soaring expenses. Once the hike is done, Fitment Factor increase would affect salaries actually realized as pay, improve allowances, and pensions.
What is Fitment Factor, and why should it matter?
Fitment factor is an important multiplying number for computation of basic salary for central government employees according to the arrangement of pay as per pay commission. The present fitment factor is 2.57, which was fixed under 7th pay commission. Basic pay is simply multiplied by 2.57 as per to reach the revised pay. Employee unions have been demanding a hike to 3.68 for quite a time.
If an employee’s fundamental pay is 18000 and if fitment factor of 2.57 is applied then it will translate to 46260 pay. But if we take fitment factor as 3.68 then the pay will be 66240, which is a notable and will really bring about the financial upliftment of the employees.
Expected Changes In 2025
Journalistic outlets continue to hint through newspaper interviews and discussions within the employees’ unions of a possible announcement for the hike in fitment factor in 2025, hopefully in advance of the setting up of the 8th Pay Commission. More than 50 lakh central government employees and pensioners would benefit from this increase, which would reflect in pensions. The revision in fitment factors would mean an increase in basic salary plus all other benefits dependent on basic pay such as Dearness Allowance (DA), House Rent Allowance (HRA), and Travel Allowance (TA). Therefore, financially, employees also deserve this across-the-board hike.
Reasons For Increasing Demand For Fitment Factor Hike
With enormous cost increases and runaway inflation affecting normal households, employee unions have been continuously insisting that the pay structure be revisited by the government. The last revision under the 7th Pay Commission was in 2016, and since then, no change has occurred in fitment factors, which was supposed to have been changed with the increased cost of commodities, according to the view of the employees. Employees say that the advocates of hike are absolutely justified and warranted to maintain parity with contemporary conditions of the economy.
Fingers are crossed, because it is reported that since elections are nearby, such a decision becomes politicized and hopes are increasing for the government to concede.
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