Salary Hike Gift: Employees will get the benefit of this step of the government from July 1, 2024. Additional Chief Secretary Deepak Kumar has issued a government order to increase the salary of state employees, aided educational institutions, technical educational institutions, permanent employees of urban bodies and UGC salary holders.
The Yogi government of Uttar Pradesh has again given a gift to the state employees after Diwali. The state government has increased the dearness allowance (DA) of the employees under the fifth and sixth pay commission. The order regarding the increase in dearness allowance has been issued by the government on Thursday. Earlier, before Diwali, the government had announced to increase the DA of the employees coming under the seventh pay commission by 3 percent.
Dearness Allowance of employees increased by 12 percent
After the recent order of the government, the dearness allowance of the employees of the fifth pay scale has been increased by 12 percent. Apart from this, the dearness allowance of the employees of the sixth pay scale will increase by 7 percent. Employees will get its benefit from July 1, 2024. In this regard, Additional Chief Secretary Deepak Kumar has issued a government order. According to the government order, the dearness allowance of state employees, permanent employees of aided educational institutions, technical educational institutions, urban bodies and UGC salary holders whose salary has not been revised since the year 2006 and they get salary as per the 5th pay scale has been increased.
DA increased from 443 to 455%
Accordingly, the dearness allowance under the fifth pay commission has been increased from 443 percent to 455 percent. Employees receiving salary under the sixth pay commission, which has not been revised since 2016, will get 246 percent DA instead of 239 percent. Earlier, on the occasion of Diwali, the Yogi government had announced to increase DA in the first week of October. At that time, the government had increased the DA of employees coming under the seventh pay commission from 50 percent to 53 percent. The dearness relief allowance (DR) of pensioners was also increased by the same amount.
Apart from this, the Yogi government had announced to give bonus to the employees at that time. This benefited about 14.82 lakh employees of the state government. Giving bonus on Diwali had put a burden of Rs 1025 crore on the state government treasury. The government had given the benefit of increased DA and bonus to the employees in the October salary. Due to Diwali, the October salary was also given to the employees on October 30.
