Along with the announcement of this allowance, the government has also issued a notification. This allowance is given to pensioners and employees to provide relief from inflation.

The West Bengal government on Friday issued a notification to give Dearness Allowance (DA) at the rate of six per cent of basic pay to employees, pensioners and family pensioners, which will be effective from March 1. This increase has been done under the 6th Pay Commission. According to the government’s notification, the 6 per cent hike in DA is due to a total of 3 per cent announced in December 2020 and 3 per cent announced in January 2021.

How will dearness allowance be calculated?

Information has also been given in the notification that how the dearness allowance will be calculated. The calculation of DA will be done according to the revised basic pay and non-allowance. If there is no other allowance then the basic pay and DA will be calculated. This increased DA will be applicable to teachers and other employees of government-aided institutions as well as employees of local bodies.

On the other hand, in the case of pension, it will be the responsibility of the pension disbursing authority to calculate the amount of dearness relief on the revised pension and allocate the amount of pension amount in each individual case.

DA is less than the central government

A state government employee said that even after this increase, the DA given to its employees by the central government would be 32 percent less. Many organizations of state government employees are demanding DA equalization with the Center. In the beginning of this week itself, ignoring the warning of action, he did a 48-hour ‘pen down’ movement.

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This increase will be applicable from December 1. After this decision, the DA of state employees has increased from 8 percent to 20 percent. What does the Chief Minister of the state tell after this decision.

Salary of these employees will be doubled

State CM Saha said in a press conference on Tuesday that this decision will benefit 1,04,600 regular employees and 80,800 pensioners. Apart from this, temporary employees will also benefit as their remuneration has almost doubled. The Chief Minister said that the 12 per cent increase in DA/DR would put an additional burden of Rs 120 crore on the state government every month and Rs 1,440 crore on an annual basis.

Saha said that despite the paucity of resources, the state government has revised the salary structure. This will benefit lakhs of employees and their families.

DA of central employees may increase by 4 percent

According to media reports, the first DA hike of 2023 may be of 4 per cent. This would mean that the DA rate for central government employees may increase to 42 under the 7th Pay Commission rules. With such an increase, along with 48 lakh employees, 68 lakh pensioners will get a big relief in the form of Dearness Relief (DR).

Central government employees had increased the DA rate from 31 percent to 34 percent with a hike of 3 percent in January 2022. The second hike in 2022 increased DA by 4 percent, taking the figure to 38 percent.

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