7th Pay Commission: There is good news for central employees. The government can take a decision this month regarding the DA arrears of 18 months. The DA of central employees from January 2020 to June 2021 was stopped due to Corona. They have been demanding its release for a long time.
New Delhi: 7th Pay Commission: There is good news for central employees. The government can take a decision this month regarding the DA arrears of 18 months. The DA of central employees from January 2020 to June 2021 was stopped due to Corona. They have been demanding its release for a long time.
Employees waiting for DA arrears
According to media reports, the government can pay the outstanding DA of the employees in August. However, earlier it was reported that the government can pay the DA arrears to the employees, but the government had refused it. Employees are still waiting for DA arrears.
According to media reports, a discussion in this regard can be held in the meeting of the Joint Consultative Mechanism of officials of the Department of Personnel and Training and Department of Expenditure, Ministry of Finance. Let us inform that the central employees are currently getting dearness allowance at the rate of 34 percent.
DA was stopped due to Corona
Explain that due to the Corona epidemic, the Central Government had stopped the DA of 18 months for the central employees. Employees have been demanding for its release for a long time, but the employees expecting from the government have got disappointed so far.
If the central government makes one time settlement of the arrears of DA arrears, then different amounts will be released for different levels of employees.
Let us tell you that dearness allowance to central employees is also going to increase. DA is revised in January and July in a year. It is being estimated from the rising inflation and the data of All India Consumer Price Index that the DA of central employees may increase by up to 5 percent. If this happens, then the DA of the employees will increase from 34 percent to 39 percent.
