7 th Pay Commission Seeks One-Month Extension of Deadline to Submit Recommendations The Seventh Pay Commission has urged the Union finance ministry to extend the deadline by a month to submit its recommendations. The commission-- headed by Justice A.K.Mathur,if granted an extension, is expected to submit its report by the end of September. Appointed by the previous government in February 2014, the commission was given 18 months to submit its report. The time allotted for the commission ends this month. "There are some data points that are missing, which we hope to get by this month end. We are trying to s ubmit the report by 20 September," an official of the commission told Live mint . com . The official cited above said that the pay commission recommendations "need to be effective from 1 January 2016, or by April 2016 at the latest". "It will be the government's prerogative when to implement it. But b...