Union Budget 2023: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present the budget in Parliament on February 1. People’s expectations are attached to this budget. Industry, businessmen, taxpayers, students, general public and government employees also have hope from this.
Especially the central employees hope that in the budget of the financial year 2023-24, the government can take some decision on the outstanding dearness allowance of 18 months. Amidst the apprehensions of a new wave of Corona coming, the expectation of central employees has increased considerably. Now the question arises whether the Finance Minister will announce the release of funds for the payment of the outstanding Dearness Allowance (DA) of the central employees?
Decision expected on fitment factor
According to media reports, it is expected that in the Union Budget 2023, a decision may be taken on the payment of the outstanding dearness allowance for 18 months. Although no announcement is made regarding the salary of government employees in the budget, but in the last complete final budget of the Modi government, the central employees are hopeful that the government can include the expenditure of 18 months’ outstanding dearness allowance in its budget. Huh.
How is the remaining 18 months DA left?
Let us tell that the increase in dearness allowance is announced twice a year by the central government for its employees. Since February 2020, when the whole world was devastated by the Corona epidemic and all economic activities came to a standstill, the central government did not increase the dearness allowance from January 2020 to June 2021. After this, on July 1, 2021, the government had increased the dearness allowance by 11 percent.
Before that the government did not increase the dearness allowance three times. Although, before January 2020, the dearness allowance of government employees was 17 per cent, but after increasing the DA by 11 per cent in July 2021, it reached 28 per cent. At the same time, the central employees are expecting payment of DA arrears of 18 months.
Government has refused
However, the government has refused to pay dearness allowance for 18 months to the central employees. According to media reports, Rajya Sabha MP Naran Bhai J Rathwa had asked a question in the Parliament whether the government will pay 18 months’ arrears of dearness allowance to central employees?
In response to this, Minister of State for Finance Pankaj Chowdhary had said that many applications have come in relation to giving dearness allowance and dearness relief for 18 months to central government employees and pensioners, but the government is not yet considering giving DA and dearness relief. Is.
