The DA is a part of the salary given to government employees and pensioners. Notably, the payment of DA of employees has not been revised since January 2020.
7th Pay Commission: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Thursday announced that the state government has hiked the dearness allowance of government employees. The hike will come into effect from July 2021, the chief minister said in the state assembly.
This announcement to provide a financial benefit of Rs 450 crore to the employees and pensioners was made by the CM Jai Ram Thakur while presiding over a state-level function at historic Seri Manch in Mandi.
The Union Cabinet on Wednesday decided to restore Dearness Allowance (DA) and Dearness Relief (DR) for central government employees and pensioners from July 1, 2021 while increasing the rate of allowance to 28 per cent.
According to media reports, the Centre is expected to increase the dearness allowance of its employees by 4 per cent which will increase the Dearness Allowance to 21 per cent. At present, dearness allowance is 17 per cent.
Maharashtra energy minister Nitin Raut on Friday announced a bonus for around one lakh employees of state-run power companies who had threatened to go on strike during Diwali.
In Chhattisgarh, government servants holding fake caste certificates will be terminated from service. Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel has instructed to dismiss all government servants holding fake or false caste certificates immediately from service on Friday.
The Saudi Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development has announced that government employees will return to work from August 30. The decision was based on the health reports of the kingdom's cities and governorates, Xinhua news agency quoted the Ministry as saying on Saturday.
7th Pay Commission: The Narendra Modi government has issued the protection of pay order to the central government employee consequent to appointment to a new post in different service or cadre in Central Government. The Department of Personnel and Training of the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions has issued an Office Memorandum (OM) regarding the protection of pay.
The Maharashtra government on Friday said it was mandatory for government employees to be present in office once a week during the COVID-19 lockdown, failing which they will have to face salary cut.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has urged Pakistan to freeze salaries of government employees and adhere to the fiscal consolidation path by showing a nominal primary deficit in the new budget, said Finance Ministry sources.
Amid apprehensions of government employees that they would not receive salaries for April, the Karnataka Finance department on Tuesday issued orders ensuring that they would get it for the month.
The Uttar Pradesh government on Wednesday said salaries of its employees will neither be deferred nor cut amid the coronavirus lockdown and its impact on revenues.
A message sweeping across WhatsApp and Facebook claims that India has announced deduction in salary/pension of government employees.
7th pay commission latest news: Central Government has taken a decision that is bound to benefit these Central Government employees. HRA for these employees will be doubled.
This is the fourth budget of the Amarinder Singh-led government in the state. Badal said a rural development fund fee and market committee fee would be reduced to just one per cent from four per cent.
It's a piece of good news for Maharashtra government employees as their work-week will be of 5-days only. The decision taken by state government employees will come into effect from February 29.
Lending their weight to the protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA), Assam government employees would go on a cease work on Wednesday.
"No Sir. Presently, there is no proposal to reduce age of retirement on superannuation from 60 years to 58 years," Minister of State for Personnel Jitendra Singh said in a written reply to Lok Sabha.
The State Administrative Council (SAC) accorded sanction to the release of additional installment of Dearness Allowance (DA) for government employees and pensioners, representing an increase of five per cent over the existing rate of 12 per cent of the basic pay or pension.
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