Dearness allowance for central government employees is expected to increase to 50 percent or more by January 2024. This increase will be done under the Seventh Pay Commission. The rate of DA is currently decided by the recommendation of the 7th Pay Commission. The last pay commission had also recommended that pay should be revised when DA and DR are 50 per cent or more of the basic pay to neutralize the effect of inflation.

In view of this, is the government planning to set up the 8th Pay Commission? Union Minister of State for Finance Pankaj Chaudhary has given information about this in response to a question in the Rajya Sabha on July 25, 2023. The Minister of State for Finance was answering a member’s question. The member had asked that if the rate of DA or DR is estimated to be 50 percent or more from January 2024, will the 8th Pay Commission be implemented?

What did the Minister of State for Finance answer?

Pankaj Chowdhary said that the Central Government employees and pensioners are paid Dearness Allowance (DA) and Dearness Relief (DR) to compensate for the fall in the real value of their salary and pension due to inflation. At present, DA 42 percent is being given to employees and pensioners. These rates are revised at six months. On the question of the 8th Pay Commission, the minister said that there is no plan nor is it being considered for the formation of the 8th Central Pay Commission for the Central Government employees.

Will be reviewed from time to time

Para 1.22 contained in the 7th Pay Commission Report, which recommended that the pay matrix of Central Government employees be reviewed from time to time on the basis of Ackroyd formula without waiting for a long period of 10 years Can Chaudhary said that the government has not considered approving the revision of pay and allowances on the basis of the Seventh Central Pay Commission.

The government has already denied

It is worth noting that there was a discussion about the formation of the Eighth Pay Commission earlier also, on which a reply was given by the Central Government. The government had refused to consider any proposal for the formation of the 8th Pay Commission.

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New rates will be applicable from 1 July 2023

The revised rates of DA will be applicable from July 1, 2023. For basic pay up to Rs 3,500 per month, DA will be 701.9 per cent of pay with effect from July 1, 2023, subject to a minimum of Rs 15,428. Employees with basic pay between Rs 3,501 to Rs 6,500 per month will get DA minimum of Rs 24,567 and 526.4 percent of salary from July 1, 2023. The DA of employees with basic pay between Rs 6,500 and up to Rs 9,500 will be 421.1 per cent and the minimum will be Rs 34,216.

DA will be revised every three months.

It was said by the DA department that on the basis of price increase more than Quarterly Index Average 1099 (1960 = 100), DA installments would become payable from January 1, April 1, July 1 and October 1 every year. Are. All Administrative Ministries/Departments of Government of India have been asked to bring the above to the notice of the CPSEs under their administrative control for necessary action at their end.

Revised Rates of DA The new DA scheme has been mentioned in Annexure-III of DPE’s OM dated 25.06.1999 in the Office Memorandum. It depicts the rates of DA payable to Board level and below Board level officers of CPSEs and non-unionized supervisors. For CPSE officers and non-unionized supervisors, the rate of DA payable from 1 July 2023 is 416 percent.

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Good news has come for the employees of Meghalaya Government. Actually, the government has increased the dearness allowance ie DA (Dearness Allowance) to the state employees and pensioners.

According to the information, the DA Hike of the employees has been increased by 4 percent. The Meghalaya government has approved a 4 per cent increase in the dearness allowance of state employees on the lines of central government employees. According to the news, this increase in dearness allowance will be effective from July 2022. After its effect, DA (Dearness Allowance Hike) has increased from the current rate of 28 percent to 32 percent from July 2022.

DA of central employees has increased

Let us discuss here that on September 29, there was good news for the employees of the central government. On this day, the Modi government at the Center had approved to increase the dearness allowance (central govt employees / da hike) by 4 percent, after which there was a wave of happiness among the central employees.

Now 50 lakh central employees and 62 lakh pensioners will get DA of 38 per cent. The increased amount of DA was valid from July this year itself and the arrears of the previous months were also given to the employees.

Know which states DA has increased

It is noteworthy that central employees used to get 34 per cent DA, which has now increased. Central employees are now getting 38 per cent DA. Apart from the central government, states like Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka, Punjab, Assam also took care of their employees and increased the DA of the employees working under them.

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