7th Pay Commission: The Telangana government has given a gift to the employees and pensioners before the Union Budget 2023 is presented. The Telangana government has increased the dearness allowance of the state employees.
This decision of the state government is going to benefit more than 7.2 lakh government employees and pensioners of Telangana. At present, the DA (Dearness Allowance – DA) and DR (Dearness Relief – DR) of state government employees is 17.29 percent. The state government has increased it to 20.02 percent.
Employees will get 18 months DA arrears
Dearness allowance to state government employees will be considered applicable from July 1, 2021. That is, the employees will get DA arrears of 18 months. These arrears will not be given to the employees in their salary. Rather, the dearness allowance of the employees from 1 July 2021 to 31 December 2022 will be deposited in the General Provident Fund (GPF) account.
DA increased for Telangana state employees
According to the Telangana government, the arrears of dearness allowance (DA Arear) will be paid to those employees who are going to retire on May 31, 2023. Apart from this, they will be allowed to contribute to the General Provident Fund ie GPF during the last four months of their service. Meanwhile, the pensioners will be paid their dearness relief along with the January 2023 pension.
Arrears will be available in 8 installments
The State Government will pay the Dearness Relief (DR) arrears from July 1, 2021 to December 31, 2022 in eight installments. According to Finance Minister T Harish Rao, the Telangana government’s move to increase DA will help 2.88 lakh retired employees and 4.40 lakh working employees.
This state government has also increased DA
Earlier, the Tamil Nadu government had increased the dearness allowance by 4 per cent. Now the DA available to employees in Tamil Nadu has been increased from 34 per cent to 38 per cent. The decision of the Tamil Nadu government will see a hike in the salaries of over 16 lakh state employees. At the same time, now the central government also has to increase the first installment in DA. It is expected that the government may increase the DA after the budget, which will be considered applicable from January 2023.
