DA Hike Alert: The Chhattisgarh authorities on Tuesday mentioned it has elevated the dearness allowance (DA) for its workers. The DA has been hiked by 6 per cent to twenty-eight per cent for workers beneath the seventh Pay Commission and by 15 per cent to 189 per cent for these beneath the sixth Pay Commission. The hikes are efficient August 1, 2022, in keeping with an official notification.
The state authorities workers had been receiving a 22 per cent dearness allowance beneath the seventh Pay Commission and 174 per cent beneath the sixth Pay Commission since May 2022, as per the notification.
The state authorities’s finance division within the notification mentioned the revised DA will likely be paid from August 1, 2022. “The DA will be calculated on the basis of basic pay. It won’t include special allowance and individual allowance.”
If the DA quantity is 50 paise or above, the quantity will likely be rounded off to the upper rupee quantity. The quantity under 50 paise will likely be spared.
The hike will profit no less than 3.8 lakh state authorities workers, an official informed PTI including that it’ll put an extra burden of Rs 2,160 crore every year on the exchequer.
Last month, a federation of state authorities officers and workers had staged a five-day strike over their numerous calls for, together with a hike in home hire allowance and dearness allowance.
It had introduced to once more go on strike from August 22 to lift their calls for. On August 13, a delegation of the Chhattisgarh Karamchari Adhikari Mahasangh (CAKM) had met Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel, who had given his consent to hike the DA by 6 per cent, officers mentioned.
The chief minister had additionally assured that he would contemplate the demand of accelerating the HRA on the premise of the seventh Pay Commission scale, they mentioned.
Unsatisfied with the 6 % hike, the CAKM’s regional convenor Kamal Verma mentioned the state workers had sought 34 % DA and HRA as per the seventh Pay Commission scale, however each these calls for haven’t been fulfilled. Even the 6 % hike has been made efficient from August, when it ought to have been given from July 2020, he mentioned, in keeping with a PTI report.
“As per our earlier announcement, we will go on indefinite strike from August 22,” Verma mentioned.
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