7th Pay Commission: Double bonanza to central employees, after DA, now travel allowance (TA) also increased, so much money will come in the account

7th Pay Commission: Diwali has become bright for central employees. The Central Government has given gifts one after the other to the employees this Diwali, due to which there will be a bumper increase in the salary of the employees. Earlier there was an increase in Dearness Allowance and now now Travel Allowance (TA) has also increased.

Due to the increase in dearness allowance, there was an increase in the TA of the employees. But now the traveling grade has been increased. Central employees will now get a chance to travel in Tejas trains apart from Rajdhani and Duronto Express. It is worth noting that recently the dearness allowance was increased by 4%. Now the total DA of the employees has increased to 38 percent, and the effect of the increase in DA is visible on the TA. 

Travel allowance will benefit

According to the notification issued by the Department of Expenditure (DoE) of the Ministry of Finance, now central employees will be able to travel by Tejas train on their official tour. The government has approved the officials to use this train for their official travel plans. Actually, IRCTC’s Tejas Express is the country’s first private and premium class train, and after this announcement by the Ministry of Finance, employees will now be able to travel in it.

See TA calculation

Actually, Travel Allowance is divided into 3 categories on the basis of pay matrix level. The first category – Higher Transport Allowance is from the city. For this the formula for TA calculation is Total Transport Allowance = TA + [(TA x DA% )\/100].

Know how much TA is available in which category?

Now let’s talk about how TA is calculated. Under this, TPTA is given Rs 1350 for 1-2, Rs 3600 for 3-8 level employees and Rs 7200 for level 9 above.

Under this, employees of Level 9 and above get TA + DA of Rs 7,200 for cities with higher transport allowance. For other cities this allowance is Rs 3,600 +DA. At the same time, employees up to 3-8 years get 3,600 plus DA and 1,800 plus DA, while in Level 1 and 2, Rs 1,350 + DA for first class cities in this category, while 900 for other cities. Get +DA of Rs.

These employees get more TA

With this, let us tell you that the employees who have got the facility of car, in which cabinet secretary level officers come, they are paid Rs 15,750 + DA per month. Let us tell you that the facility of car is available to employees with pay level 14 and above pay grade.