DA Hike: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has announced an increase in dearness allowance (DA) as a gift to the government employees of his state from Diwali.
Along with this, he has also decided to give bonus to the government employees on this festival. He has increased the DA of government employees by 3%. After this increase made by the government, the dearness allowance of the employees will increase to 53%. The increase in dearness allowance will be paid from July 2024.
14.82 lakh employees will get bonus
Earlier, the Yogi Adityanath government of Uttar Pradesh had announced bonuses for about 14.82 lakh non-gazetted employees, teachers and non-teaching staff of the state. The bonus was announced by the government on Wednesday, after which the order was also issued by the Finance Department late in the evening.
How much bonus amount will come in hand
In the order issued by the Finance Department, it has been said that the government employees of the state will be given a bonus equal to 30 days of earned leave for the financial year 2023-24. In this regard, each employee will get a bonus of Rs 6,908. 75% of this bonus will be deposited in the Employees’ Provident Fund (GPF) account. At the same time, 25% will be paid in cash. After 75% is deposited in GPF, a cash payment of Rs 1727 will be made to the government employees. At the same time, the employee who is not a member of GPF will have to deposit this money in the form of National Savings Certificate or in PPF.
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