7th Pay Commission: New pay hike from April 2018 A top Finance Ministry official, who did not wish to be named told on Tuesday said that new pay hike for central government employees would come into effect from 1 April 2018. He said that National Anomaly Committee (NAC) is likely to submit report on new pay hike by December. The new pay hike will come into effect by April next year at the latest, he added. Earlier, the government gave nod the 7th Pay Commission proposal of minimum basic pay from Rs 7,000 to Rs 18,000 per month while the maximum basic pay from Rs 80,000 to Rs 2.5 lakh with a fitment factor of 2.57 times uniformly of sixth pay commission's basic pay. Expressing dissatisfaction over the recommendations of the 7th Pay Commission, various central government employees' unions had threatened to go on an indefinite strike from 11 July, 2016. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley was under pressure to assure to hike minimum pay for the central government employees day after the...