Bank Employees DA Hike: There is good news for bank employees. Their dearness allowance has been increased. Their dearness allowance has been increased for the next 3 months.
Along with this, the revised rate of dearness relief for bank pensioners has also been announced. Lakhs of bank employees and retired pensioners will benefit from this decision.
The Indian Banks Association has announced an increase in Dearness Allowance and Dearness Relief for August, September and October 2025. According to the official circular issued by the IBA, once again, under the 12th Pay Treaty and 9th Joint Note, the rate of dearness allowance for August, September, October 2025 has been fixed at 21.23 percent of the salary.
The rate of dearness allowance is 21.23 percent of the salary
Dearness allowance will be provided on basic salary. Dearness allowance has been decided on the basis of average of Consumer Price Index. Under the base of 2016, 123.03 points were seen. The average CPI of the new quarter has been fixed at 144.15 points. In such a situation, the difference between them was 21.113 points.
The average of the last quarter was 143.0. In which an increase of 1.6 points has been registered this time. On the basis of which dearness allowance has been increased. Along with dearness allowance, rates of dearness relief have also been revised equally. This will be given to retired bank employees. Due to which their pension will increase.
Rate of dearness allowance also revised under 11th BPC/8th Joint Note
Apart from this, the rate of dearness allowance of bank employees and pensioners has also been revised for August, September and October under the 11th BPC / 8th Joint Note dated 11 November 2020. They will be provided 54.74% of the salary as dearness allowance.
In this regard, the Indian Banks Association has clarified that the number after the decimal point from the third place can be ignored while calculating dearness allowance. IBA has issued instructions to all the banks saying that this increase will be applicable for 3 months from August to October 2025 and accordingly the salary slips of employees and pensioners will be revised.
54.74% of the basic pay will be provided as dearness allowance while the bank employees working under 12th Pay Treaty will be provided 21.13 per cent of their basic pay as dearness allowance.
