How much has the DA increased in Rajasthan?

The state government has decided to give employees and pensioners 58% dearness allowance under the Seventh Pay Commission, instead of 55%, effective July 1, 2025. The Chief Minister approved the Finance Department’s proposal on Friday. This decision will benefit approximately 800,000 employees and 440,000 pensioners.

Panchayat and Zila Parishad employees also included

Panchayat Samiti and Zila Parishad employees will also benefit from this increase. The increased DA will be paid in cash with the October 2025 salary, while the amount for the months of July to September will be deposited into the General Provident Fund account. Pensioners will receive cash payments starting in July.

How much will it cost the government?

This decision will impose a financial burden of approximately ₹1,230 crore annually on the state government. However, the government has described it as a sensitive decision taken in the interest of employees and pensioners.

Inspired by the Central Government’s Decision

This decision comes at a time when the Central Government also increased the DA for its employees on Wednesday. Following this, the Rajasthan government also directed the implementation of the proposal at the state level without delay. Chief Minister Bhajan Lal Sharma immediately approved the Finance Department’s proposal on Friday, providing relief to millions of state employees and pensioners before Diwali.

The Bihar Government Also Made a Major Decision

On Friday, the Bihar Cabinet, chaired by Nitish Kumar, announced a 3% increase in the DA for state employees. Now, the DA in Bihar has also increased from 55% to 58%.

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If this happens, the dearness allowance of the employees will increase from 42 to 46 per cent. Due to this, there will be a minimum increase of Rs 2000 in the salary. This decision will benefit 1 crore employees and pensioners of the country.

AICPI June figures to be released on July 31 – DA may increase by 4%

Actually, the dearness allowance of central government central employees is increased twice a year. This increase depends on the figures of the AICPI index of the Labor Ministry. So far, the figures till May 2023 have been released, in which the rate of dearness allowance has reached 45.57 points. Now only the June figures are yet to come, which will be released on July 31.

It will be clear from this that by how much the dearness allowance of the employees and pensioners will increase from July. It is expected that there may be a 4 per cent hike in DA in July. If this happens, the DA of government employees will increase to 46 per cent. The government will announce this in October-November but it will be considered applicable from July 1, 2023.

Maximum salary can increase

If the basic salary of a government employee is Rs 18000, then he gets a DA of Rs 7560 at the rate of 42%. When it becomes 46% then DA will be Rs 8280 per month. According to this, there will be an increase of Rs 720 in the salary every month. If someone’s salary is Rs 56900, then he will get a benefit of Rs 2,276 every month and Rs 27,312 annually.

Government can increase HRA

According to media reports, the government can also increase the HRA (House Rent Allowance – HRA) along with the dearness allowance. The last HRA was increased in July 2021 and it was increased to 25%. This time there is a possibility of an increase of 3 percent. It is believed that HRA can be increased by 3% in X class cities and only 2% in Y class cities and 1% in Z class cities. Since the HRA of the government employee is increased on the basis of the city, it has been kept in X, Y and Z category.

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