Junior Engineer salary

A Junior Engineer recruited through the Staff Selection Commission is a Group B post in Level 6 of the 7th Central Pay Commission pay matrix, Rs. 35,400 to Rs. 1,12,400, and the notice of the Junior Engineer Examination, 2026 states that pay on its first page in exactly that form under F. No. HQ-C-3019/1/2026-C-3. The entry basic is the Level 6 first cell of Rs. 35,400 a month. At the dearness allowance of 60% in force from 1 January 2026, the gross in an X class city is Rs. 73,020 and the in-hand is Rs. 66,846.

The post is not one post. The 2026 notice lists fourteen serial entries covering thirteen organisations, from the Central Public Works Department and the Military Engineer Services to the India Meteorological Department, and the qualification, the age limit and the physical requirements differ across them while the pay level does not. A candidate with a three-year diploma in civil engineering qualifies outright for the Central Public Works Department and qualifies for the Military Engineer Services only with two further years of site experience.

Two features of the post are missed more often than the pay. The first is that the Border Roads Organisation, not the Central Public Works Department, is the largest employer of Junior Engineers recruited this way: it took 959 of the 1,731 posts allocated in the 2025 examination, and paragraph 5.3 of the notice restricts every one of those posts to male candidates. The second is that the promotion above the grade is not into a Group A post. In the Central Public Works Department the Assistant Engineer above the Junior Engineer is a Group B gazetted post at grade pay Rs. 4,600, that is Level 7, reached after five years of regular service.

This page sets out the pay in full: the in-hand across the three city classes, the thirteen recruiting organisations and how the vacancies divide between them, the qualification and age rules post by post, the two computer-based papers and their negative marking, the recruitment rules that create the post, the field allowances a project posting adds, and the ladder from Junior Engineer to Chief Engineer. The take-home for the level is worked by the salary by pay level calculator, set to Level 6.

Pay and in-hand at Level 6

A Junior Engineer draws the Level 6 entry cell of Rs. 35,400 a month, and the whole of the rest of the salary is computed from that figure. Level 6 replaced grade pay Rs. 4,200 in Pay Band-2 under Part A of the Schedule to the Central Civil Services (Revised Pay) Rules, 2016, and runs 40 cells from Rs. 35,400 to Rs. 1,12,400 at 3% a stage.

The two smallest deductions are fixed amounts and not percentages, which is why they are so often stated wrongly. The Central Government Health Scheme subscription is Rs. 450 a month for Level 6, one slab of the four fixed by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare Office Memorandum dated 9 January 2017 and never revised since. The group insurance premium is Rs. 60 a month, the Group B rate under the scheme of 1980, last revised with effect from 1 January 1990.

Transport allowance at Level 6 is Rs. 3,600 a month in the 19 higher-rate cities and Rs. 1,800 elsewhere, with dearness allowance added on top. All eight X class cities appear on the 19-city list, so an X class posting always draws the higher slab. The two lists are not the same list, and confusing them is the commonest error on the subject: Surat, Jaipur, Kanpur, Lucknow and Nagpur take the higher transport allowance while remaining Y class for house rent allowance.

What the in-hand comes to outside an X class city

The Level 6 basic of Rs. 35,400 and the 60% dearness allowance do not move with the posting. House rent allowance and transport allowance do, and between them they account for the whole spread of Rs. 9,960 a month between the best-paid and worst-paid Junior Engineer posting on identical basic pay.

Deductions are identical in every row, at Rs. 5,664 of pension contribution plus Rs. 450 plus Rs. 60, because none of the three is computed on an allowance. The house rent allowance floors of Rs. 5,400, Rs. 3,600 and Rs. 1,800 a month never bind at Level 6: 10% of Rs. 35,400 is Rs. 3,540, already twice the Z class floor.

The organisations that recruit Junior Engineers

Thirteen organisations indent Junior Engineer posts through the Staff Selection Commission, listed in paragraph 2 of the Junior Engineer Examination, 2026 notice: the Border Roads Organisation, the Brahmaputra Board of the Ministry of Jal Shakti, the Central Water Commission, the Central Public Works Department, the Central Water and Power Research Station, the naval quality assurance directorate of the Ministry of Defence, the Farakka Barrage Project, the Military Engineer Services, the National Technical Research Organisation, the Director General of Lighthouses and Lightships, the Department of Telecommunications, the India Meteorological Department and the Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying.

The roster is not stable across years, because the Commission recruits only against vacancies reported to it. Paragraph 4.2 of the notice says so directly: the Commission has no role in deciding the number of vacancies, and the reservation roster belongs to the indenting organisation. The 2026 examination carries 1,748 tentative vacancies. The 2025 examination finished at 1,731 final vacancies, published on 24 June 2026 and allocated in the first round on 9 July 2026.

The Border Roads Organisation took 55% of the posts, which reframes what the qualification is for. The popular picture of a Junior Engineer is a Central Public Works Department officer maintaining government buildings in a city. The arithmetic of the 2025 allocation says the median Junior Engineer selected that year went to a border or hill road project, and the notice attaches conditions to that: paragraph 5.3 confines the Border Roads Organisation posts to male candidates, the organisation is the one exception to the disability suitability listed in paragraph 5.1, and its selected candidates go through physical standards and a medical examination at a military hospital.

The category division of the 1,731 posts was 780 unreserved, 432 for the Other Backward Classes, 270 for the Scheduled Castes, 127 for the Economically Weaker Sections and 122 for the Scheduled Tribes, with 10, 11 and 8 horizontal vacancies for orthopaedically handicapped, hearing handicapped and other benchmark disabilities. There is no reservation for ex-servicemen on these posts, because paragraph 4.3 of the notice records that the Junior Engineer posts are classified Group B, and ex-servicemen reservation runs to Group C and Group D. The age relaxation for ex-servicemen still applies.

Disciplines and the qualification each post requires

The examination is set by discipline, and paragraph 2 of the 2026 notice fixes a separate essential qualification for every organisation rather than one qualification for the grade. The disciplines are civil, electrical, mechanical, electrical and mechanical combined, and telecom, and the same examination now also recruits Scientific Assistants for the India Meteorological Department.

The experience condition is the sharpest line in the table, and paragraph 2.1 narrows it further: the experience must have been acquired after the essential qualification was completed, and an internship, training or research period obtained during the course of the qualification does not count. A diploma holder is therefore eligible for the Central Public Works Department on the day the result is declared and eligible for the Military Engineer Services two years later.

Distance and online engineering qualifications are excluded. Paragraph 2.2 applies the University Grants Commission (Open and Distance Learning Programmes and Online Programmes) Regulations, 2020, under which engineering is a prohibited discipline in that mode unless the statutory regulator permits and the Commission notifies it. One carve-out survives: following the Supreme Court order dated 11 March 2019 in M.A. No. 3092/2018 in W.P. (C) No. 382/2018, Mukul Kumar Sharma and Others against AICTE and Others, the engineering degree or diploma awarded by IGNOU to students enrolled up to the academic year 2009-10 is treated as valid.

Discipline choice is locked at application. Paragraph 13.8 states that the subject opted for in the online application form will not be changed under any circumstances, and paragraph 18.8 adds that once a post is allotted, no change is made even where the candidate then fails the medical, physical or educational standard of that specific post: the candidature is rejected instead, and the lower preferences are not revisited.

Age limit and relaxation

The upper age limit for a Junior Engineer post is 30 years, with two exceptions at 32 years: the Central Public Works Department and the Director General of Lighthouses and Lightships. For the 2026 examination the crucial date is 1 August 2026, fixed under Department of Personnel and Training Office Memorandum No. 14017/70/87-Estt. (RR) dated 14 July 1988, so a candidate for a 30-year post must have been born between 2 August 1996 and 1 August 2008, and a candidate for a 32-year post between 2 August 1994 and 1 August 2008.

Those figures are the standard central government relaxations of Department of Personnel and Training Office Memorandum No. 15012/2/2010-Estt.(D) dated 27 March 2012, reproduced at paragraph 7.2 of the notice. The date of birth that counts is the one in the matriculation certificate, and paragraph 7.3 makes a mismatch between that certificate and the application form a ground for rejecting the candidature outright.

The 32-year limit for the Central Public Works Department is not an administrative concession granted for a particular year. It is written into the recruitment rules for the post: column 6 of the Schedule to the Central Public Works Department (Subordinate Offices) Junior Engineer (Civil and Electrical) Recruitment Rules, 2013 reads “not exceeding 32 years”, with a note allowing a further five years for serving government servants.

The examination: two computer-based papers

Selection is by two computer-based papers of objective multiple-choice questions, both set in Hindi and English only. Paper-I is qualifying. Paragraph 18.2 of the 2026 notice states it plainly, and it is the most consequential feature of the scheme: the marks that decide the post are the Paper-II marks.

Candidates eligible for a scribe under paragraphs 9.1 to 9.3 get 2 hours and 40 minutes for each paper.

Negative marking is not uniform across the two papers, and paragraph 13.10 sets it at 0.25 marks for a wrong answer in Paper-I and one full mark for a wrong answer in Paper-II. Because each Paper-II question carries 3 marks, a wrong answer there costs a third of what a correct one earns, against a quarter in Paper-I. Minimum qualifying marks in both papers are 30% for unreserved candidates, 25% for the Other Backward Classes and the Economically Weaker Sections and 20% for every other category, so the Paper-II bar for an unreserved candidate is 90 of 300 marks.

Two aids sit on the screen rather than on the desk. Paragraph 13.11 puts the table of IS 456:2000 Code of Practice and the steam table on the candidate console under a “Useful Data” button active throughout, and paragraph 13.12 adds a scientific calculator. Paragraph 13.13 bars any physical version of either from the examination laboratory.

How posts are allocated after the papers

Allocation is by marks in Paper-II and by the preference of organisation the candidate files online, and not by an aggregate of the two papers. Paragraph 18.6 of the 2026 notice prepares four separate select lists, one each for Junior Engineer (Civil), Junior Engineer (Electrical and Mechanical), Junior Engineer (Telecom) and Scientific Assistant, each ordered on preference together with normalised Paper-II marks.

Normalisation runs further than the usual multiple-shift adjustment. Paragraph 18.4 normalises the electrical and mechanical branches against each other by treating them as different shifts, on the reasoning that a few posts are common to both while the question papers are different and their difficulty may not be. The three Scientific Assistant subject options are normalised the same way.

The Commission keeps no waiting list. Paragraph 18.9 says so and puts a sliding mechanism in its place, introduced by notices dated 3 March 2026 and 8 April 2026, under which provisionally allocated candidates attend a physical identity verification and choose to fix or float their allocation so that vacancies left by non-joining are refilled in a single reallocation round. A candidate who does not attend that process in person is treated as absent and drops out of the final result.

The recruitment rules behind the post

The examination is a recruiting mechanism, not the source of the post. What creates a Junior Engineer post, fixes its classification and reserves part of it for departmental candidates is a set of recruitment rules notified under the proviso to article 309 of the Constitution. For the Central Public Works Department those are the Ministry of Urban Development, Central Public Works Department, Subordinate Offices, Junior Engineer (Civil and Electrical) Recruitment Rules, 2013, notified by G.S.R. 82 dated 20 March 2013 under F. No. 29/4/2006-S&D, in supersession of the 2003 rules of the same name.

The Schedule to those rules classifies the post as General Central Service, Group B, non-gazetted, non-ministerial, in Pay Band-2 of Rs. 9,300 to Rs. 34,800 with grade pay Rs. 4,200, which is what places it at Level 6 in the present matrix. Column 5 records that it is neither a selection nor a non-selection post, column 9 fixes probation at two years, and column 13 dispenses with consultation with the Union Public Service Commission.

Column 10 splits the vacancies, and the split is what most descriptions of the post leave out:

• 95% by direct recruitment through the all-India competitive examination held by the Staff Selection Commission.
• 5% from departmental employees of the Central Public Works Department, work-charged or regular, with five years of continuous service and the column 7 qualification, on a limited departmental competitive examination held by the department itself.

The educational qualification in column 7 is a diploma in civil engineering for the civil post and a diploma in electrical or mechanical engineering for the electrical post, in each case from a recognised university or institute, with a note allowing the Staff Selection Commission to relax it for reasons recorded in writing in the case of an otherwise well-qualified candidate. The 2013 rules sanctioned 2,200 civil posts and 890 electrical posts, spread across the Central Public Works Department, the Public Works Department of the National Capital Territory of Delhi, the income tax offices, the environment and forests offices and the Land and Development Office, subject to variation with workload.

Probation, service liability and confirmation

Every Junior Engineer appointed through the examination serves two years on probation. Paragraph 18.15 of the 2026 notice sets the period and requires the candidate to undergo such training or pass such examinations as the controlling authority prescribes during it, with confirmation to follow on successful completion if the candidate is considered fit for permanent appointment. Column 9 of the 2013 recruitment rules carries the same two years for the Central Public Works Department post.

The posts carry all-India service liability. Paragraph 18.16 states that a selected candidate is liable to serve anywhere in India, and paragraph 18.17 adds that the user organisation may allot a state, union territory or zone and may require proficiency in its local language as a condition of confirmation. For a Border Roads Organisation or Military Engineer Services selection this is not a formality, since both organisations are built around project postings that move.

Success in the examination confers no right to appointment. Paragraph 18.13 preserves the government’s power to satisfy itself, after such enquiry as it considers necessary, that the candidate is suitable in all respects, and paragraph 18.14 makes admission at every stage provisional until eligibility is verified.

Field and project postings

Two Junior Engineers on the same Rs. 35,400 basic can draw materially different pay, and the difference comes from the risk and hardship matrix rather than from the pay matrix. A Junior Engineer in the Central Public Works Department maintaining buildings in a city draws the standard components alone. A Junior Engineer on a Border Roads Organisation or Military Engineer Services project draws whatever cell of the matrix the location and duty attract, on top.

Project Allowance and Compensatory (Construction or Survey) Allowance both sit in cell R3H2 of the matrix at paragraph 8.10.75 of the 7th Central Pay Commission report, which pays Rs. 3,375 a month for Level 8 and below since 1 January 2024. Tough Location Allowance II sits in the same cell at the same rate, and Tough Location Allowance I sits a cell higher at R3H1 and pays Rs. 5,125.

Matrix rates carry no dearness allowance. They rise instead by a 25% escalator step each time dearness allowance climbs by 50 percentage points, and the single step that has fallen due took the R3H2 rate from Rs. 2,700 to Rs. 3,375 with effect from 1 January 2024. That is why a field allowance that looks small against the DA-linked components does not grow month by month the way they do.

Placement in a cell creates a rate and nothing else. Each allowance keeps its own eligibility conditions, so a posting to a classified location or the performance of the qualifying duty remains the test, and a Junior Engineer posted to a project office in a city draws none of them.

The career ladder from Junior Engineer to Chief Engineer

The grade above the Junior Engineer is not a Group A post, and this is where most published accounts of the ladder go wrong. In the Central Public Works Department the Assistant Engineer is General Central Service Group B, gazetted, non-ministerial, in Pay Band-2 with grade pay Rs. 4,600, which is Level 7 with an entry cell of Rs. 44,900. The classification appears in column 3 of the Schedule to the Central Engineering Group B Service Recruitment (Amendment) Rules, 2010, notified by G.S.R. 63 dated 31 March 2010 for the civil service and G.S.R. 62 of the same date for the electrical service, both under F. No. 33/4/2006-S&D/EW.

The Assistant Engineer post is filled entirely by promotion. Column 11 of the 2010 Schedule records the method as promotion with no direct recruitment element at all, and column 12 splits it: 80% from Junior Engineers in the grade pay Rs. 4,200 grade with five years of regular service in the grade, and 20% by a limited departmental competitive examination conducted by the Central Public Works Department Training Institute or another recognised institution, open to Junior Engineers with four years of regular service. The departmental promotion committee for the grade is chaired by the Additional Director General of Works.

Above that the service changes character. The Assistant Executive Engineer is the junior time scale of the Central Engineering (Civil) Group A Service, constituted by the Central Engineering (Civil) Group A Service Rules, 1996, G.S.R. 500(E) dated 28 October 1996. Rule 7(i) fills every Assistant Executive Engineer vacancy by direct recruitment through the Engineering Services Examination conducted by the Union Public Service Commission, with the qualification and age limit in Schedule III: a degree in civil engineering, and an age of 20 to 28 years on 1 August of the year in which the examination is held. No Junior Engineer is promoted into that grade.

A Junior Engineer enters Group A one rung higher instead, at Executive Engineer, and Schedule II of the 1996 Rules divides that grade three ways:

• One third of the vacancies from Assistant Executive Engineers with four years of regular service in the grade.
• One third from Assistant Engineers with eight years of regular service in the grade holding a degree in civil engineering or an equivalent qualification.
• One third from Assistant Engineers with ten years of regular service in the grade holding a diploma in engineering from a recognised university or institution.

The two-year gap between the eight-year quota and the ten-year quota is the only place in the ladder where a degree buys a diploma holder’s time back, and it is the practical answer to whether a working Junior Engineer should complete a degree. Above the Executive Engineer, the Superintending Engineer in the junior administrative grade takes five years of regular service as Executive Engineer plus a degree, and the Chief Engineer takes eight years as Superintending Engineer including non-functional selection grade service, or seventeen years in Group A posts of which four are as Superintending Engineer.

Where regular promotion stalls, the Modified Assured Career Progression scheme grants three financial upgradations to the immediately next pay level at 10, 20 and 30 years of regular service, or at 10 years in the same level, whichever falls earlier. A financial upgradation moves the pay level and not the post. Pay on both promotion and upgradation is fixed under Rule 13(i) of the Central Civil Services (Revised Pay) Rules, 2016: one increment in the existing level, then placement in the cell of the higher level equal to that figure, or the next higher cell where none is equal.

The departmental route into the grade

Not every Junior Engineer arrives through the examination. The 2013 recruitment rules reserve 5% of Central Public Works Department Junior Engineer vacancies for departmental employees, work-charged or regular, who have five years of continuous service in the department and hold the diploma prescribed in column 7, selected through a limited departmental competitive examination held by the department rather than by the Staff Selection Commission.

That route matters to pay in one specific way. The five-year service requirement means the departmental entrant reaches Level 6 with an existing service record, and the annual increment of 3% a stage in Level 6 then applies from the fixed pay rather than from the entry cell of Rs. 35,400. The 95% recruited through the examination start at the entry cell under the first-appointment rule.

The parallel departmental route one grade higher, the 20% limited departmental competitive examination for Assistant Engineer at four years of regular service, is the fastest way out of Level 6. It saves a year against the five-year promotion quota, and the examination is conducted by the Central Public Works Department Training Institute.

Pension

A Junior Engineer appointed after 1 January 2004 is covered by the National Pension System, contributing 10% of basic pay plus dearness allowance against a government contribution of 14%, or by the Unified Pension Scheme where that option was exercised from 1 April 2025. On an entry basic of Rs. 35,400 with dearness allowance at 60%, the employee contribution is Rs. 5,664 a month and the government contribution is Rs. 7,930.

The Old Pension Scheme is closed to post-2004 entrants, and no Junior Engineer recruited through any recent examination is on it. The contribution is the single largest deduction from the Level 6 salary, larger than the health scheme subscription and the insurance premium put together by more than a factor of ten.

Income tax

Income tax on a Junior Engineer’s salary at the entry cell is nil. The annual gross in an X class city is Rs. 8,76,240, and against the new tax regime standard deduction of Rs. 75,000 the total income is about Rs. 8.01 lakh, well below the Rs. 12 lakh at which the Section 156 rebate of up to Rs. 60,000, the former Section 87A, stops making the liability nil. The salaried threshold, standard deduction included, is Rs. 12.75 lakh.

The position holds for several years of service. Level 6 reaches Rs. 12.75 lakh of annual gross only well up the 40-cell column, so a Junior Engineer in an X class city typically begins paying income tax after promotion or after a long run of increments rather than on appointment. A Junior Engineer with substantial Project Allowance or other matrix payments crosses earlier, since those are taxable in full under the new regime.

The 8th Central Pay Commission

No 8th Central Pay Commission figure applies to a Junior Engineer today. The Commission was constituted by Resolution F. No. 01-01/2025-E.III(A) dated 3 November 2025 and has not reported, so the Level 6 entry cell of Rs. 35,400 stands, and the Junior Engineer Examination, 2026 notice, uploaded on 2 September 2026, prints it as the pay of the post.

Every projected 8th CPC figure for the grade in circulation is arithmetic performed on an assumed fitment factor, and no fitment factor has been recommended, accepted or notified. The terms of reference cover allowances alongside pay, so the house rent allowance percentages and the risk and hardship matrix rates that make up a field posting’s pay are equally open and equally unsettled. What is settled is the current pay: Rs. 35,400 basic, Rs. 73,020 gross and Rs. 66,846 in hand in an X class city at a dearness allowance of 60%.

Junior Engineers outside the Staff Selection Commission examination

The Junior Engineer Examination is not the only Junior Engineer recruitment in the central government. The Railway Recruitment Boards run their own Junior Engineer recruitment for the Indian Railways through centralised employment notices, on a separate application, a separate syllabus and a separate schedule, and no zonal railway appears among the thirteen organisations in the 2026 Staff Selection Commission notice. The Railway Recruitment Board and railway employees articles cover that side.

Within the departments that do recruit through the Commission, the 5% limited departmental competitive examination quota under the 2013 recruitment rules is a second internal channel into the same grade. The examination route and the departmental route produce the same post at the same Level 6 pay, and the recruitment rules treat both as filling a single cadre.

How the post compares with other Level 6 entries

A Junior Engineer draws the same Rs. 35,400 basic as a Sub-Inspector in the Central Armed Police Forces and the same as a primary teacher at Level 6, because the pay attaches to the level and not to the job. The technical qualification changes what the post is, not what it pays. Against a Junior Statistical Officer recruited through the SSC CGL examination at the same Level 6, a Junior Engineer needs an engineering diploma or degree where the other needs a general degree, and the two draw an identical salary.

One level up, the Income Tax Inspector and the Assistant Section Officer sit at Level 7 on Rs. 44,900, the same cell a Junior Engineer reaches on promotion to Assistant Engineer after five years. That comparison is the honest way to read the entry pay: the Junior Engineer starts a level below the graduate inspector grades and closes the gap through a promotion that the recruitment rules make available on a fixed quota rather than on a discretionary basis.

The central government jobs hub places the technical entries in the wider map, and the salary by pay level chart gives the pay at each rung of the ladder above.

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References

1. Staff Selection Commission, Notice of the Junior Engineer Examination, 2026, F. No. HQ-C-3019/1/2026-C-3, uploaded on the Commission’s website on 2 September 2026: paragraph 1 (Level 6 pay), paragraph 2 (organisations and qualifications), paragraph 3 (1,748 tentative vacancies), paragraphs 5.1 and 5.3, paragraph 7 (age), paragraph 13 (scheme of examination) and paragraph 18 (mode of selection, probation and service liability).
2. Staff Selection Commission, Junior Engineer (Civil, Mechanical and Electrical) Examination, 2025, declaration of the First Round of Tentative Allocation, F. No. HQ-C-3019/4/2025-C-3, dated 9 July 2026.
3. Ministry of Urban Development, Central Public Works Department, Subordinate Offices, Junior Engineer (Civil and Electrical) Recruitment Rules, 2013, G.S.R. 82 dated 20 March 2013, F. No. 29/4/2006-S&D, Gazette of India Part II Section 3 Sub-section (i) dated 6 April 2013.
4. Ministry of Urban Development, Central Public Works Department, Central Engineering Group B Service Recruitment (Amendment) Rules, 2010, G.S.R. 63 dated 31 March 2010, and the Central Electrical Engineering Group B counterpart, G.S.R. 62 dated 31 March 2010, F. No. 33/4/2006-S&D/EW.
5. Ministry of Urban Affairs and Employment, Central Engineering (Civil) Group A Service Rules, 1996, G.S.R. 500(E) dated 28 October 1996, Gazette of India Extraordinary Part II Section 3 Sub-section (i) No. 361 dated 29 October 1996, rule 7 and Schedules I to III.
6. Central Civil Services (Revised Pay) Rules, 2016, G.S.R. 721(E) dated 25 July 2016, Part A of the Schedule and Rule 13.
7. Department of Expenditure Office Memorandum No. 1/1(i)/2026-E.II(B) dated 22 April 2026 (dearness allowance at 60% from 1 January 2026).
8. Department of Expenditure Office Memorandum No. 2/5/2017-E.II(B) dated 7 July 2017 (house rent allowance) and No. 21/5/2017-E.II(B) dated 7 July 2017 (transport allowance).
9. Department of Personnel and Training Office Memorandum No. 15012/2/2010-Estt.(D) dated 27 March 2012 (age relaxation) and No. 14017/70/87-Estt. (RR) dated 14 July 1988 (crucial date for reckoning age).
10. Report of the 7th Central Pay Commission, paragraphs 8.10.74 to 8.10.76 (risk and hardship matrix cells R3H1, R3H2 and R3H3); Resolution F. No. 01-01/2025-E.III(A) dated 3 November 2025 constituting the 8th Central Pay Commission.