The Tripura Cabinet has removed the deadline for government employees to exercise an option aimed at correcting pay anomalies between seniors and juniors that arose from financial upgradation under the Modified Assured Career Progression Scheme. The decision was announced through a Finance Department press release on Thursday, 14 August 2026.
Under the MACP Scheme, government employees become eligible for financial upgradation after 10, 17 and 25 years of continuous and satisfactory service without promotion, in line with the ROP Rules, 2017. The scheme is meant to relieve stagnation where regular promotions have not come through.
The Finance Department said the anomalies had arisen where employees received MACP benefits between 2 January and 1 July of a calendar year. In such cases, the date of the annual increment was deferred to 1 January of the following year. That deferral produced situations in which a senior employee could end up drawing less pay than a junior colleague, according to the department’s release.
To address this, the government in September 2023 had allowed affected employees to opt for MACP benefits on their next increment date for the purpose of pay fixation. The latest Cabinet decision removes the time limit within which employees could exercise that option, opening the window for those who had not done so earlier.
The change applies to state government employees covered by the ROP Rules, 2017, and follows a series of pay and pension clarifications issued by the Tripura Finance Department over the past year. State government employee associations in Tripura have separately continued to press for the release of pending Dearness Allowance and fuller implementation of pay commission recommendations.
The removal of the deadline is expected to give affected employees a longer runway to correct senior-junior pay disparities, though the number of employees who stand to benefit was not specified in the release.
