<h1>Performance-linked appraisal overhaul: objectives cascaded, weights shifted toward work output, synchronized targets and online APAR mandated.</h1> The 7th Central Pay Commission retained the annual increment rate and recommended withholding increments for employees who do not meet MACP or promotion benchmarks within the first twenty years; the Government has accepted these recommendations. The Commission mandated linking Departmental Results Framework Documents with APARs, requiring strategic objectives to be cascaded, objectives to be prioritised with success indicators and weights emphasizing work output over personal attributes, APAR indicators to be set with supervisors at year-start, RFD-APAR timeline synchronization, and an online APAR system for all Central Government officers and employees.