Pankaj Choudhary on DA Arrears: 18 months arrears are being demanded from the central employees for a long time. Now a big statement has come from the government on this.
7th Pay Commission DA Arrears: If you yourself are a central government employee or someone from your family is a central employee, then this news is useful for you. Yes, the arrears of 18 months is being demanded from a long time by the central employees. Now a big statement has come from the government on this. Union Minister of State for Finance Pankaj Chowdhary has given a statement in the Rajya Sabha on the arrears of 18 months. It seems from his statement that the government was forced to give a statement in Parliament on the demand made by the employees on DA arrears.
Employees organizations demand to meet the Finance Minister
In response to a question asked during the Question Hour, the Minister of State for Finance said why the arrears of the employees have not been released? Let us tell you that there is a demand from the employees’ organizations to issue arrears for 18 consecutive months. In the past days, the employees’ unions had also demanded a meeting with the Finance Minister regarding this matter.
Government facing financial crisis
Pankaj Chaudhary told in the Rajya Sabha that the Central Government has decided not to release the three installments of Dearness Allowance due to the Corona epidemic. He also informed in the House that the government is facing a financial crisis due to the lockdown imposed to prevent the spread of coronavirus. To ensure that the livelihood of the people is not affected in any way, the government has invested in various welfare schemes.
DA increased to 38 percent in September
He told that for these reasons the money was not released by the government. He also told that even after the effect of coronovirus epidemic subsided, the financial crisis was seen, that is why the outstanding DA of central employees was not released. DA has been increased to 38 percent in September 2022 by the government.
The demand for DA from January 2020 to June 2021 is being made by the government employees for a long time. However, earlier also the government had not made any kind of promise to the employees regarding this.
