7th Pay Commission Latest News: Central employees are going to get good news once again. Actually, the money of DA Arrear (18 Months DA Arrear) hanging for the last 18 months is going to come in the account. Let’s know the biggest update on this.
7th Pay Commission Big Update: Central Government employees can once again get good news. This month, along with the increase in DA, the government can also take a decision on the outstanding DA arrears of 18 months (18 Months DA Arrear). Actually, Central Employees have been demanding the payment of their due DA from the government for a long time.
Central employees will get outstanding arrears!
There is media news that the government can pay the outstanding DA in the account of lakhs of employees in August. In fact, the central employees are continuously demanding the DA withheld from the government from January 2020 to June 2021. Earlier many times news came that the government is going to put 2 lakhs of the outstanding DA arrears in the account of the employees, but the government denied it every time and the wait for the employees continues even today. Now it is being told that the government is preparing to put Rs 1.50 lakh in a lump sum in the account of central employees.
May be decided in the meeting
Significantly, a meeting of the Joint Consultative Mechanism (JSM) of the officers of the Department of Personnel and Training and Department of Expenditure (DOPT) of the Ministry of Finance is to be held. In this, there can be a discussion on the DA arrears payment of the employees. An announcement on the increase in DA is also expected in this meeting. Let us tell you that at present, DA is being paid at the rate of 34 percent, but according to the data of AICPI, there may be an increase of 5 to 6% in DA in July.
18 months arrears
It is worth noting that due to Covid, the government had put a DA hold of 18 months of central employees. After this, the DA of the employees was increased several times but the arrears arrears have not been received yet. The employees are hopeful that the government will soon clear their dues. However, there is no official statement from the government on the payment and increase of the outstanding DA so far. Let us tell you that the employees will get the DA arrears according to their salary band.
