7th CPC Salary Calculator — Your In-Hand Pay From the Official Pay Matrix

What this calculator does — and who it is for

Today’s pay, not a future estimate: the current structure, worked from the matrix up.

The 7th Central Pay Commission’s pay structure has been in force since 1 January 2016, and it is still the structure on your payslip today. This 7th pay commission calculator exists for the questions that raises every month: what is my in-hand salary on this basic pay, what does the next DA revision do to it, what changes if I am posted from an X-class city to a Y-class one? As a 7th pay commission salary calculator it answers them the way your drawing and disbursing officer does — line by line, off the pay matrix — rather than with a single percentage slapped on a basic.

Some readers know the same tool as the 7 cpc salary calculator; the names differ, the matrix does not. Who is it for? The roughly 50 lakh central government employees drawing 7th CPC pay — Group C staff on Levels 1 to 5, the large Group B band on Levels 6 to 9, and officers from Level 10 up — plus anyone comparing a central government offer against one. State government employees draw pay under their own state revisions (several states adopted the 7th CPC pattern with their own notifications and fitments), so state payslips will differ in detail even where the matrix looks the same.

Three promises about the numbers. First, the matrix below is the official one — the table from the 7th CPC Report as carried into the CCS (Revised Pay) Rules — reproduced in full and proofed cell by cell. Second, every allowance and deduction rate carries its source and effective date, and the DA rate is re-verified against the latest Ministry of Finance order. Third, the result is labelled an estimate, honestly: postings, quarters, children education allowance and income tax all move a real payslip, and the sections below say exactly where this model stops.

What is 7th pay commission?

The short, honest answer — who set it, when it took effect, and the one structure it left behind.

The 7th Central Pay Commission was the pay revision body the Government of India constituted on 28 February 2014, chaired by Justice Ashok Kumar Mathur, to recommend how the pay of central government employees and pensioners should be restructured. It reported on 19 November 2015; the government accepted its structure with modifications in 2016, and the revised pay took effect from 1 January 2016. It is still the structure on your payslip today — nothing has replaced it, and the commission being discussed for the next revision (the 8th, covered on its own page) has not yet reported.

Its one structural break with the past: it abolished the twin system of pay bands and grade pay and replaced both with a single pay matrix of levels — the chart reproduced in full further down this page. Minimum pay rose from ₹7,000 under the 6th CPC to ₹18,000; a fitment factor of 2.57 converted every serving employee’s pay into the matrix; and the dearness allowance formula the commission retained is the one that still revises pay twice a year, in January and July.

Searchers write the body every way it can be written — 7th CPC, 7 cpc, 7cpc, 7thcpc, the 7 th pay commission spelled out — and every spelling lands on the same structure and the same matrix. This page is that structure’s working end: a salary calculator central government employees can run line by line, from a matrix cell to an estimated in-hand figure, on the rates in force today.

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How it works

Three steps from your matrix cell to your in-hand pay.

The math behind the estimate

The pay matrix, and how to read it

Levels across, stages down — and your own cell in three steps.

Everything on this page runs off one chart, and the chart answers to many names: the pay matrix table, the 7 pay matrix, the pay matrix 7th pay commission, the 7th cpc matrix, the seventh pay matrix, the pay matrix of 7th cpc, the 7 th pay matrix, the 7 cpc pay matrix, the pay matrix 7cpc. Because it is the Centre’s chart it is also the central govt pay matrix — the pay matrix central government staff draw from, the central government pay matrix in full, the pay matrix central govt offices once pinned to notice boards; in its shortest search form, the 7th pay commission table or the 7 cpc table. One chart, one set of numbers: 19 level columns and 540 cells, notified in 2016 and not changed by a single cell since.

Read it as a grid with two directions. Across the top run the levels — 1 to 18, with 13A inserted — and a level is a rank of posts: your post, not your pay, decides your column. Down each column run the stages (the cells), each about 3% above the one before it, rounded to the nearest hundred; moving down one cell is one annual increment. The first cell of each column is its entry pay, set by multiplying the minimum pay of ₹18,000 by that level’s index — 1.00 at Level 1, rising to 13.89 at Level 18 — which is why entry pay climbs from ₹18,000 at Level 1 to ₹1,44,200 at Level 14 before the fixed apex pays take over.

Finding your own pay takes three steps. One: your level — from your post, or from your old grade pay, which maps to a level one-to-one (the next-but-one section tabulates the succession). Two: your stage — start at your level’s entry cell and count down one cell for every increment you have earned in that level. Three: check the figure against your current basic pay; the cell equal to it is your address, written level-then-stage. Two worked addresses: pay matrix level 7 — the pay level 7 column — opens at ₹44,900 (stage 1); its stage 10 cell is ₹58,600, and the column runs on to ₹1,42,400 at stage 40. Pay matrix level 6 opens at ₹35,400; its stage 17 is ₹56,900 and its stage 20 is ₹62,200.

The matrix is a table of basic pays, nothing more — and it does not move between commissions: dearness allowance (60% today), HRA and NPS are all charged on your cell without the cell itself changing. The full chart follows in the next section; the companion guide, The 7th CPC Pay Matrix, Explained: Levels, Stages and Your Cell, reproduces it with the senior rows’ shorter columns and the state-adoption notes.

7th CPC pay matrix calculator: the full official matrix

The data spine of this page — the complete official table, reproduced and proofed cell by cell.

Everything on this page runs off one table. Used as a 7th cpc pay matrix calculator, the tool above is simply this matrix with the payslip lines wrapped around it: pick your level and cell, and the calculator starts from the figure printed here. The same table serves readers who arrive looking for a 7th pay matrix calculator in table form — find your level’s column, count down to your cell, and that cell is your basic pay. The matrix is reproduced in full below, exactly as the 7th CPC Report published it and the CCS (Revised Pay) Rules, 2016 carried it into force.

How the matrix is built. The horizontal axis is the level — 18 levels (with an additional 13A), which replaced the old pay bands and grade pay: your level is set by your post, and the old grade pay maps to it one-for-one, as the column heads show. The vertical axis is the cell: within a level, each cell below the first is one annual increment, built at 3% over the cell above and rounded to the nearest ₹100 — the rounding convention the whole table uses. Where a level’s row starts is set by its index of rationalisation: the entry pay of a level, expressed as a multiple of the ₹18,000 minimum. Level 1 sits at index 1.00; Level 6, the old grade pay 4200 band, at 1.97 (₹18,000 × 1.97 ≈ ₹35,400); Level 13 jumps to 6.84, the point where Pay Band-4 began. The index column in the summary table is the Commission’s own rationalisation, and it is why the gaps between levels are uneven — they preserve the relativities of the structure the matrix replaced.

Why rows end where they do. A level’s row runs only as far as the structure needs: Levels 1 to 10 carry the full 40 cells (a whole career of increments inside one level), while the senior rows shorten — Level 12 ends at cell 34, Level 14 at cell 15, Level 16 at cell 4 — because an officer at those levels is promoted, or retires, long before forty increments pass. Levels 17 and 18 are fixed pay: a single cell each (₹2,25,000 for the Apex scale, ₹2,50,000 for the Cabinet Secretary), with no increments at all. A dash in the tables below is therefore part of the official table, not a gap in this page’s copy of it.

How to read your own pay off it. Take the worked reading this page’s readers most often need. A Level 7 employee — the old grade pay 4600 — starts at cell 1, ₹44,900. Ten annual increments later she is on cell 11, ₹60,400, and her in-hand pay on today’s rates (X-class city, higher-TPTA posting) is ₹1,10,146.00 a month, against ₹83,176.00 at entry: the matrix section of the pay matrix guide linked at the foot of this page teaches this reading in full, for every level. Your own cell follows the same count — years of increments earned in the level, added to the entry cell — and if the count and your payslip disagree, the payslip is what to query with your office, because the matrix itself has not changed since 2016.

The four tables below are the complete matrix, split by the old pay bands purely so the page stays readable. Scroll sideways inside any table on a phone; the level heads stay in view.

The 7th pay commission pay matrix calculator table, part 1 — Levels 1 to 5 (Pay Band-1, grade pay ₹1,800 to ₹2,800). Amounts in ₹ per month.

Part 2 — Levels 6 to 9 (Pay Band-2, grade pay ₹4,200 to ₹5,400).

Part 3 — Levels 10 to 12 (Pay Band-3, grade pay ₹5,400 to ₹7,600). Level 11 stops at cell 39 and Level 12 at cell 34 — the official rows end there.

Part 4 — Levels 13 to 18 (Pay Band-4 and the HAG scales). Levels 17 and 18 are fixed pay — a single cell each, no increments.

One caution that belongs with any reproduction: this matrix is the civil matrix. The defence forces and the Military Nursing Service have their own matrices in the same report, built on the same principles with different level structures, and the UGC academic levels for university and college teachers (Academic Levels 10 to 15) are a separate table again — the pay matrix guide below maps those academic levels and works the state-adoption question (Rajasthan, Gujarat and others) that readers ask about.

The same chart, taught reading by reading — how the index of rationalisation built it, how the states adopted it, and how the UGC academic table differs — is our 7th CPC pay matrix guide.

Grade pay is gone — here is your level

The 6th CPC’s grade pay, mapped to the level that replaced it.

Until 31 December 2015, central pay was quoted as a pay band plus a grade pay. The 7th CPC abolished grade pay outright: each grade pay was succeeded by exactly one level, and it is the succession — not the old number — that a modern payslip runs on. The fifteen successions:

One grade pay needs its pay band to disambiguate it: 5400 in Pay Band-2 became Level 9, while 5400 in Pay Band-3 — the Group A entry — became Level 10. Above grade pay 10000, the old HAG scales map to Levels 15 and 16, and the two fixed pays (Apex scale and Cabinet Secretary) are Levels 17 and 18. The full legacy mapping — every pay band, the 2016 fixation worked per band, and the state-adoption caveats — is the companion guide, Grade Pay to Pay Level: The Complete Legacy Mapping.

How in-hand pay is calculated

The eight lines of the payslip, in order — each one sourced, each one checkable.

Strip away the abbreviations and every salary calculator 7th cpc employees rely on runs the same eight lines. Here is the flow the tool above implements, in the order a payslip prints it:

1. Basic pay. Your cell of the pay matrix. Everything else is calculated from it, which is why the fixation of this one figure (next-but-one section) matters so much.

2. Dearness allowance. A percentage of basic pay, revised every January and July against the All-India Consumer Price Index, on the formula the 7th CPC laid down. The current rate is 60%, effective 1 January 2026 (Cabinet approval 18 April 2026; Department of Expenditure order of 22 April 2026). DA is the single biggest allowance on most payslips and the input readers change most — the tool leaves it editable precisely so you can model the next revision before it is notified.

3. House rent allowance. A percentage of basic pay set by the population class of your place of duty: 30% (X), 20% (Y), 10% (Z) at the rates in force since 1 January 2024. HRA is not payable if you are allotted government accommodation, and it is calculated on basic pay alone — DA does not enter it.

4. Transport allowance. A fixed monthly amount by level band and by whether your posting is in one of the higher-TPTA cities or elsewhere — and, unusually, dearness allowance is paid on top of it, so the drawn amount is the base rate × (1 + DA rate). One rule catches people out: Levels 1 and 2 staff whose basic pay has reached ₹24,200 draw the higher band’s rate. Officers at Level 14 and above who are eligible for an official car may instead opt for a flat ₹15,750 plus DA; that option is not modelled here.

5. Gross pay is the sum of lines 1 to 4. 6. NPS. Your own contribution to the National Pension System: 10% of (basic + DA), deducted monthly. The government contributes 14% of the same amount to the same account — real money, but it never passes through the payslip, so it is not in the in-hand figure. (Pre-2004 entrants on the old pension scheme draw no NPS line; their GPF subscription applies instead and is not modelled.)

7 and 8. CGHS and CGEGIS. Two small flat subscriptions: the Central Government Health Scheme contribution by level (₹250 to ₹1,000 a month, rates in force since February 2017) and the Central Government Employees Group Insurance Scheme subscription by group (₹30, ₹60 or ₹120). Between them they are the lines readers most often write in about, because both are easy to mistake for errors — they are not; they buy the health cover and the insurance cover respectively.

What is deliberately not here: income tax (it depends on your full year’s income, regime and declarations — no honest monthly estimate exists), children education allowance, and the posting-specific allowances (hard-area, island, uniform and the like). The estimate is the standard central payslip; your office’s version adds your own lines to the same spine.

Worked in-hand examples for Levels 6, 7 and 10

Three full payslips at today’s rates — the defaults above, then the two levels readers ask about most.

Level 6 — the 4200-grade-pay lineage. Level 6 is the most populous band in the central services: the senior clerical, inspector and assistant grades where a large share of Group B careers are spent. At the entry cell, in an X-class city (Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru and the other 50-lakh-plus cities) with transport allowance at the higher-TPTA rate, the payslip is:

Read it against the defaults in the calculator: they are the same run. Two features reward a second look. The NPS line (₹5,664) is larger than HRA’s smaller-city variants — it is 10% of basic plus DA, not of basic alone, the single most common hand-calculation error. And the transport line already contains its own DA: the ₹3,600 base for Levels 3 to 8, drawn at 60% DA, is ₹3,600 × 1.60 = ₹5,760.

Move the same employee to a smaller city and only one line changes — but it changes the month:

The Z-class posting costs ₹7,080 a month against the X-class one — exactly the HRA difference (30% less 10% of ₹35,400) — which is why the city class of a posting is worth checking before a transfer is accepted, and why the tool treats HRA class as a first-class input rather than a footnote.

Level 7 — the 4600 band. One level up, at the entry cell of ₹44,900 in the same X-class, higher-TPTA posting:

Level 10 — the Group A entry. Level 10 is where the organised Group A services enter (the old grade pay 5400 in Pay Band-3). At entry, same city assumptions:

Note what changed between the levels and what did not. The transport allowance steps up at Level 9 (₹7,200 base, drawn as ₹11,520 at 60% DA), and the CGEGIS subscription steps up at Level 10 (₹120). The CGHS subscription steps up at Level 12, not here — ₹650 covers Levels 7 to 11. Every other difference between the three payslips is arithmetic, not rules: the same percentages running on a larger basic.

Three more full payslips worked the same way — a Level 6 in a Y-class city, a smaller-town Level 3, and an Assistant Professor on the UGC scale — plus the exact spreadsheet formulas to rebuild them, are in our in-hand salary guide.

Pay fixation and increments

How pay was fixed in 2016, how it moves every year, and how it is fixed again on promotion.

The 2.57 fixation, honestly told. On 1 January 2016 every serving employee’s pay was converted by one rule: take the 6th CPC pay — pay in the pay band plus grade pay — multiply by the fitment factor 2.57, and fix the result at the first cell of the new level, in the pay matrix, equal to or higher than the product. The factor itself was built in two parts: the dearness allowance in force at the time (125%) was merged into pay, which alone gives a factor of 2.25, and a real increase of about 14% was applied on top (2.25 × 1.1422 ≈ 2.57). It was a lookup, not a bare multiplication — the matrix cell you landed on, not the raw product, became your pay.

Worked fixation 1. An employee on grade pay 4200 drawing pay in the band of ₹13,060: 6th CPC pay ₹13,060 + ₹4,200 = ₹17,260. Multiplied: ₹17,260 × 2.57 = ₹44,358.20. The Level 6 column runs …₹43,600, ₹44,900 — there is no ₹44,358 cell, so the pay was fixed at the next cell up, ₹44,900 (cell 9). That rounding-up is built into the rule and applied to everyone.

Worked fixation 2 — the famous edge case. At the minimum of Pay Band-4 with grade pay 8700: ₹37,400 + ₹8,700 = ₹46,100, and ₹46,100 × 2.57 = ₹1,18,477. But Level 13’s entry cell is ₹1,23,100 — the rationalisation had set the level’s start above the raw product — so the pay was fixed at ₹1,23,100, the entry cell itself. Employees at that point of the old structure did better than the bare factor, by design.

The annual increment. Each year, on 1 January or 1 July (the date applicable to you, with at least six months of service in the level on that date), you move one cell down your level’s column — about 3%, the step the matrix is built in. Because DA, HRA and NPS all key off basic pay, a single increment moves every line: on Level 7, the move from ₹44,900 to ₹46,200 carries ₹780 more DA and ₹390 more HRA with it at today’s rates. Increments are also what the cell selector in the tool counts: cell 1 plus the increments you have earned is your cell.

Fixation on promotion. The rule (FR 22(I)(a)(1), applied through the CCS (Revised Pay) Rules) is two steps: take one increment in your present level, then fix at the first cell of the higher level equal to or above that figure. A Level 6 employee on ₹39,900 increments within Level 6 to ₹41,100, and on promotion to Level 7 fixes at ₹44,900 — worth ₹8,500 more in hand a month on this page’s model (₹74,676.00 before, ₹83,176.00 after, X-class city). The same two-step fixation runs on MACP financial upgradation, with the level above substituted for the promotion level. The fixation guide linked below works all three — 2016 fixation, increments, promotion — with more examples.

The full treatment — more fixation examples, the bunching benefit and the increment-date option — is our pay fixation and increments guide.

Pay fixation on promotion and MACP, worked

The two-step rule, run on real cells — once for a promotion, once for a MACP upgradation.

The fixation rule — FR 22(I)(a)(1), applied through the CCS (Revised Pay) Rules — never changes its shape: take one increment in your present level, then fix pay at the first cell of the higher level equal to or above that figure. A promotion runs it into the level of the new post. A MACP financial upgradation — the Modified Assured Career Progression, falling due at 10, 20 and 30 years of service when a promotion has not come — runs the identical two steps into the next level, with the post and duties unchanged. The section above told the rule; here it is run, twice.

Worked — a promotion. A Level 6 employee on cell 4, basic ₹38,700, is promoted to a Level 7 post:

Pay is fixed at ₹44,900 — ₹6,200 more basic a month — which on this page’s model (X-class city, DA at 60%) moves estimated in-hand pay from ₹72,588 to ₹83,176.

Worked — a MACP upgradation. A Level 5 employee on cell 3, basic ₹31,000, completes ten years without promotion. Step one: one increment in Level 5 — ₹31,000 to ₹31,900. Step two: the first Level 6 cell at or above ₹31,900 is the entry cell, ₹35,400 — pay is fixed there, ₹4,400 above the pre-MACP basic, moving estimated in-hand pay from ₹59,420 to ₹66,846 on the same model. The post, designation and duties do not change; MACP is a pay event, not a promotion, and it falls due again at 20 and 30 years if promotions still do not come.

One choice in every promotion fixation is yours: pay can be fixed from the date of promotion or from the date of the next increment — the second route takes two increments in the old level first and sometimes lands a cell higher. Both routes worked side by side, the bunching refinement, and a five-minute audit for any fixation statement are in the companion guide, Pay Fixation on Promotion and MACP, Worked End to End.

DA on basic pay

What the percentage is charged on, the rate in force, and the instalment still pending.

Dearness allowance is the payslip’s shock absorber: a percentage of your basic pay — your matrix cell alone, never your gross — revised twice a year against the consumer price index so pay keeps pace with prices between commissions. It also reaches past its own line: NPS is calculated on basic + DA, and transport allowance is drawn with DA on top of its fixed base, so a DA revision moves three lines of the payslip at once.

The rate in force is 60% of basic pay, effective 1 January 2026 — approved by the Union Cabinet on 18 April 2026 and ordered by the Department of Expenditure on 22 April 2026 (re-verified 23 October 2026). The instalment due from 1 July 2026 had not been notified as of 23 October 2026; the price-index formula behind it works out to about 63%, which is a calculation, not a rate in force, until the Cabinet approves it and the order issues — at which point it will apply from 1 July 2026, with arrears for the gap.

The full DA account — the formula itself, the notified series back to 2016, the arrears arithmetic and the pensioner twin, Dearness Relief — is the companion guide, DA on Basic Pay: Current Rate, the Revision Cycle and How the Amount Is Worked Out. The history table and the HRA linkage follow in the next section.

DA and HRA: the current rates and their history

The two rates that move your pay between commissions — date-stamped, with the orders that set them.

Two features of the series are worth noticing. The instalments of January 2020 to June 2021 were frozen at 17% during the pandemic and released together in July 2021 — which is why the series jumps from 17% to 31% in one step. And every revision is approved after its effective date, so arrears of two or three months are a normal part of the cycle, not an exception to query.

HRA and the DA link. House rent allowance is the other DA-linked rate, but it moves in slabs rather than points: the 7th CPC set 24/16/8% for X, Y and Z cities, rising to 27/18/9% when DA crossed 25% and to 30/20/10% when DA crossed 50% — which it did on 1 January 2024, so the top slab has applied since then and further DA points (55%, 58%, 60%) do not move HRA again. The classes themselves are by population of the urban agglomeration: X at 50 lakh and above (Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Pune and Surat among them), Y from 5 to 50 lakh, Z below 5 lakh.

Go deeper

What the estimate includes — and the honest list of what it does not.

Finding your level from your post: railway, armed forces, BSF and teaching posts

The level follows the post. Find the level first, then read your service table for the cell.

Every post carries a pay level, and the level is what places a person in the matrix. The mapping runs through the grade pay the post carried before 2016, which is why the level for a post is normally stated in the appointment or pay-fixation order for that post rather than worked out from the job title alone. If you know your level, you already know your column; the remaining step is to find your stage, or cell, by moving across the row as increments accrue. The calculator on this page models the civilian matrix, so use it by level: pick your level, and read the result as the level figure. Where your service publishes its own matrix table, the level number is the bridge between the two, and the cell values come from your own service table.

Railway posts, armed forces posts and Border Security Force posts all sit on the same level structure, but each service publishes its own matrix tables, arranged by those levels. A railway employee, a member of the armed forces and a BSF jawan therefore each look up the same kind of table, in their own service publication, by level and stage. Teaching posts work the same way in principle: the level is the one stated for the post in the relevant pay order, and the figure follows from the level and the stage, not from the title of the post. Do not guess a level from a title, and do not borrow a cell value from another service table: the level transfers, the table does not.

Two cautions keep the lookup honest. First, a level has no single basic pay: each level is a column of stage cells, so a level on its own never answers what a person draws. Second, the matrix on this page is the serving-pay matrix. Pension questions use a different method, covered in the next section, and the two must not be mixed: the serving matrix tells you what serving pay looks like at a level and stage, and nothing else.

Pension and family pension: the method, not a number

Pension is worked from basic pay and qualifying service under the pension rules. This calculator does not estimate it.

A pension estimate starts from different inputs from a serving-pay estimate. The starting point is the basic pay at retirement, together with the length of qualifying service, and the result is fixed under the pension rules that apply to the retiree, as recorded in the pension payment order. That order, not this calculator, is the document that states what is payable. Anyone estimating a pension should therefore begin with the pension payment order and the service record, and treat any figure produced without those inputs as a guess.

Family pension is a separate entitlement with its own eligibility rules: it is payable to eligible family members after the pensioner, and its working follows the family pension provisions rather than the serving-pay matrix. Pre-2016 pensioners are revised under the revision method stated in the pension orders for that revision, which is again a matter for the pension payment order, not for a re-run of the serving-pay calculator. The honest use of this page for a pension question is narrow: use the serving-pay result only to understand the basic pay a level and stage carried, and take the pension working itself from the pension rules and the pension payment order.

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Method, sources and the road ahead

Where every figure on this page comes from — and what happens next to 7th CPC pay.

Method. The pay matrix is the official table of the 7th CPC Report, as carried into the CCS (Revised Pay) Rules, 2016, reproduced in full and proofed cell by cell at build. Rates are taken only from the orders that set them: dearness allowance from the Department of Expenditure’s DA orders (the current 60% from its OM of 22 April 2026); HRA from the Department of Expenditure’s HRA orders (30/20/10% since 1 January 2024); transport allowance from its OM of 2 August 2017; the CGHS subscription from the Health Ministry’s rates in force since February 2017; CGEGIS from the scheme’s standing subscription rates. Every worked example was recomputed independently of the tool, and the tool was then checked against the examples — they agree, because both run off the same matrix.

The road ahead. The 7th CPC structure remains in force until the government notifies its successor. The 8th Central Pay Commission was constituted on 3 November 2025 and its report is due by about May 2027; nothing about its fitment factor, matrix or effective date has been announced. When it lands, this page’s DA table will keep tracking the current structure to its end — and for the forward-looking question, our companion 8th Pay Commission Salary Calculator estimates revised pay under the scenarios in discussion. The two pages answer different questions — today’s payslip here, tomorrow’s estimate there — and this one claims no part of the other’s ground.

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