7th Pay Commission: Jitendra Singh in a written reply to a question in Lok Sabha said that there were 69,76,240 pensioners including 11,28,441 civil pensioners, 36,03,609 defense personnel, 4,32,968 telecom pensioners.
Minister of State for Personnel Jitendra Singh said in a written reply to a question in Lok Sabha that there were 69,76,240 pensioners including 11,28,441 civil pensioners, 36,03,609 defense personnel, 4,32,968 telecom pensioners, 14,82,223 railway pensioners and 3,28,999 postal pensioners. Were. He said that a total of Rs 2,54,284.4 crore was spent on these pensioners during the financial year 2021-22.
Let us tell you that the government is going to take a decision on dearness allowance and dearness relief to central employees and pensioners. It is expected that there may be an increase of 4 per cent in dearness relief to pensioners. If this happens, the dearness relief will be 38 percent.
