Central employees are waiting for dearness allowance (DA) for the second half of the year. It is expected that central employees will get good news on DA in the month of September.
At the same time, some states have announced allowances for their employees. In this episode, the Rajasthan government has also given great news to the state employees. However, this gift is for the employees falling under the purview of the Sixth Pay Commission.
Rajasthan government has given a gift
The Rajasthan government announced a 16 percent increase in dearness allowance. Along with this, the dearness allowance of pensioners has also been increased by nine percent. Chief Minister Bhajanlal Sharma said on the social media account ‘X’, “The state government dedicated to good governance has decided to increase the dearness allowance of state employees and pensioners under the fifth and sixth pay scales by 16 percent and nine percent respectively. As a result of this decision, the dearness allowance in the fifth pay scale has increased from 427 percent to 443 percent and in the sixth pay scale it has increased from 230 percent to 239 percent.”
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Central employees are waiting
Meanwhile, central employees are waiting for the increase in dearness allowance for the second half as per the recommendations of the Seventh Pay Commission. After the formation of the Narendra Modi government, all kinds of calculations are being made regarding the allowance.
In the month of March, the Union Cabinet had approved the release of an additional installment of dearness allowance to central government employees and dearness relief to pensioners to compensate for inflation. Under this, the rate of 46 percent of basic salary/pension was increased by 4 percent. After this increase, the allowance of the employees became 50 percent. This benefited 49.18 lakh central government employees and 67.95 lakh pensioners. Now once again a 4 percent increase is expected, so the allowance will become 54 percent.
