New Delhi, After the agitation of state employees in Chhattisgarh, the government has increased Dearness Allowance (DA). The Finance Department on Tuesday issued an order to increase dearness allowance by 6%. After this, the total dearness allowance will be 28%.
At the same time, the employee organizations are still adamant on the demand of increasing the allowance by 12%. According to the order of the state government, the dearness allowance of 7th pay scale employees has been increased by 6% to 28%. At the same time, the employees of the sixth pay scale are to be given the benefit of 15% increase.
His dearness allowance has gone up to 189%. This allowance is to be paid in cash from August 1, 2022. Dearness allowance will be calculated from the basic pay. Meanwhile, the Chhattisgarh Officer-Employee Federation is adamant on its demand. Federation convener Kamal Verma said, two rounds of talks were held with the committee of two secretaries formed by the Chief Minister.
There, 12% DA was agreed upon. There was talk that the organization would be merged with the Chief Minister. Meanwhile, representatives of some organizations who were not involved in the strike, together with the Chief Minister, an agreement was reached at 6%. Later we were also called, but we rejected 6%.
Preparing for indefinite strike from 22
Kamal Verma said, the employee organizations involved in the federation have already made their stand clear. We do not accept less than 12%. That too should be given by the due date. The government did not accept our demand, so all the employees would go on an indefinite strike from August 22.
