With this, the brand new DA price will likely be 28 per cent, up from 17 per cent.
Last week, the Union Cabinet had authorized an 11 share level hike in Dearness Allowance (DA) and Dearness Relief (DR) for central authorities workers and pensioners.
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The Finance Ministry on Tuesday issued an order to implement the Cabinet determination to hike Dearness Allowance for central authorities workers to 28 per cent from July 1. Last week, the Union Cabinet had authorized an 11 share level hike in Dearness Allowance (DA) and Dearness Relief (DR) for central authorities workers and pensioners with impact from July 1, benefitting greater than 48 lakh central authorities workers, and 65 lakh pensioners.
With this, the brand new DA price will likely be 28 per cent, up from 17 per cent. In an workplace memorandum, the Department of Expenditure underneath the Finance Ministry stated the DA payable to central authorities workers shall be enhanced from the prevailing price of 17 per cent to 28 per cent of primary pay. The enhance subsumes the extra instalments arising on January 1, 2020; July 1, 2020, and January 1, 2021.
“These orders shall additionally apply to the civilian workers paid from the Defence Services Estimates,” it said, adding for Armed Forces personnel and Railway employees separate orders will be issued by the respective ministries. In April last year, the Finance Ministry had put on hold an increment in dearness allowance (DA) till June 30, 2021, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The rate of DA from January 1, 2020, to June 30, 2021, was 17 per cent.
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