The arrears amount of the previous DA and DR will not be released. The total amount of dearness relief and dearness allowance for employees was about Rs 34,000 crore.
7th Pay Commission. On the one hand, discussions are going on once again to increase the dearness allowance of Central Government employees-pensioners by 3 to 4 percent in July, while on the other hand the outstanding DA arrears of 18 months pending for a long time (18 Month DA) are going on. Arrear) has not got any relief. According to the recent media reports, the central government has made it clear that the arrears of dearness allowance for one and a half years stuck from the year 2020 will not be given.
According to media reports, the Central Government has once again made it clear that dues of 18 months of DA arrears will not be given to central employees and pensioners who were stopped from January 2020 to June 2021 at the time of corona transition. The Finance Ministry has turned down the request of pensioners to release 3 installments of dearness relief, which was stopped during the time of Kovid-19 epidemic for immediate relief work. In such a situation, the employees who have been waiting for DA arrears for a long time are once again disappointed. Got the hand.
According to media reports, after the increase of DA, once again the Central Employees Organization is pressurizing the Modi government for the arrears of 18 months. Employees say that the ruling of the Supreme Court is that salary and allowance is the right of the employee, in such a situation, the employees can also get the benefit of 18 months arrears. This would have benefited 47 lakh 68 thousand employees and 68 lakh 62 thousand pensioners.
According to media reports, in the 32nd meeting of the Standing Committee of Voluntary Agencies to review pension rules, a representative of the Department of Expenditure (DOI) made it clear that the arrears amount of the previous DA and DR will not be released. The total amount of dearness relief and dearness allowance for employees was about Rs 34,000 crore. Please tell that DOI is a branch of the Union Finance Ministry. This decision of the government is considered to be a big setback for the employees, as the payment of 11 thousand to 2 lakh was to be done in it.
However, in the last months, when the dearness allowance of employees was increased from 31 to 34%, then the employees were hopeful that the Modi government could take a decision on this as well and for this, C. Sreekumar, a member of JCM and General Secretary of AIDEF, also to the cabinet secretary. letter was written. There was also talk of a joint meeting of JCM with the officials of Department of Personnel and Training, Ministry of Finance, Department of Expenditure, but no relief nor any decision was taken.
DA Arrears Calculation
If the government pays DA arrears in future, then the amount of arrears will be different for different grades of employees. In this, the DA arrears of Level-1 employees ranges from Rs 11,880 to Rs 37,554, Level-13 7th CPC basic pay scale Rs 1,23,100 to Rs 2,15,900, Level 14 employees’ outstanding DA from Rs 1,44,200 to Rs 2,18,200. The basic salary of the employee with Rs.56,000 for 3 months is (13,656 + 10,242 + 13,656) = DA arrears of Rs 37,554 would be available
