The state government has announced a three percent increase in dearness allowance (DA) for its employees and pensioners. With this increase, DA has now increased to 53 percent. This will benefit about 17 lakh state employees and teachers of Uttar Pradesh. Let us tell you that recently the UP government also announced Diwali bonus.

This dearness allowance announced by the UP government will come into effect from July 1. At the same time, it will be added to the salary received on October 30, 2024. Before this, recently the central government has also increased the dearness allowance of the employees by 3 percent.

Diwali bonus to employees of Uttar Pradesh

Talking about Diwali bonus, employees will get Rs 6908 along with their salary. However, only 25 per cent of the bonus amount i.e. Rs 1727 will be given in cash, while the remaining 75 per cent will be deposited in their General Provident Fund (GPF) accounts. The increased salary and bonus payment for this month will put an additional financial burden of Rs 1022 crore on the state government.

Employees and officers get salary hike once a year and DA hike twice. Usually, DA is increased between January to July, while salary is increased in July or January.

DA hike in Arunachal Pradesh too

The Arunachal Pradesh government has approved a 3% hike in dearness allowance (DA) and dearness relief (DR) for regular employees and pensioners. This will be effective from July 1, 2024. The hike will increase the existing DA and DR rates from 50% to 53%, benefiting over 68,818 state employees. Deputy Chief Minister Chowna Mein made the announcement on October 23.

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Government announced

Ahead of the festival, the Odisha government on Monday announced an increase in Dearness Allowance for state government employees. Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Monday approved a proposal to increase dearness allowance for state government employees. According to the new notification issued by the government, 3 percent increase in dearness allowance has been approved.

Government employees will get arrears

In the new announcement, the government has said that the dearness allowance of the employees has been increased from the existing 31 percent to 34 percent. The increased dearness allowance will be deemed to be applicable from January 1, 2022. That is, along with this, employees will also get 8 months arrears. This decision of the Odisha government will benefit 4 lakh employees and 3.5 lakh pensioners. Let us tell you that the government issued a notification and told that the arrears of dearness allowance from January to August will be paid separately to the employees.

DA equal to central employees

It is worth noting that the dearness allowance of central government employees is also 34% at present. That is, now the state government employees will also get the benefit of dearness allowance as much as the central government employees.

Central employees waiting for DA hike

It is worth noting that an increase in dearness allowance of central employees can also be announced by the end of this month. Actually the dearness allowance of the employees depends on the data of AICPI. Based on the data of AICPI, the increase in dearness allowance of central employees has been decided. But it has not been announced yet.

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