Central employees are waiting for Dearness Allowance i.e. DA in the second half of the year. It is predicted 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 series, Rajasthan government has also given big news for the employees of the state. However, this gift is for the employees covered by the 6th Pay Commission.
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Government of Rajasthan has given a gift
The Rajasthan government has announced a 16 percent increase in dearness allowance. Along with this, dearness allowance of pensioners has also been increased by nine percent. Chief Minister Bhajanlal Sharma said on 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, in the fifth pay scale, Dearness allowance has increased from 427 percent to 443 percent and in sixth pay scale from 230 percent to 239 percent.
Central employees are waiting
Meanwhile, central employees are looking forward to an increase in dearness allowance in the next six months as per the recommendations of the 7th Pay Commission. After the formation of Narendra Modi government, now all kinds of calculations are being done regarding the allowance.
In March, the Union Cabinet approved additional installment of dearness allowance to central government employees and dearness relief to pensioners to cover dearness. Under this the rate of 46 percent of basic pay/pension has been increased by 4 percent. After this increase, the employees’ allowance has increased to 50 percent. It benefited 49.18 lakh central government employees and 67.95 lakh pensioners. Now once again an increase of 4 per cent is expected, the allowance will increase to 54 per cent.