7th Pay Commission: Central employees are waiting for the dearness allowance to start.
New Delhi: 7th Pay Commission: Central employees are waiting for the dearness allowance to start. In order to provide monetary relief to the All India Service officers posted in the Union Territory of Ladakh, the Central Government has decided to provide additional incentives (special allowance for officers of North East AIS cadre).
They will get special allowance
According to the news published in Mint, additional monetary incentives and special duty allowance will be given to AIS officers posted in Ladakh, this will be 20 percent and 10 percent of their basic salary. Hence the 7th CPC pay matrix for AIS officers posted in Ladakh will change after the Central Government’s decision. In this connection, the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) has also issued Office Memorandum (OM).
However, this special allowance payable to 25% of his basic salary to AIS officers posted in the North East region was revised in July 2017. On 25 July 2017, according to DoPT’s Office Memorandum, the Special Allowance payable at the rate of 25% of Basic Salary was revived, in Special Allowance and Special Duty Allowance, which is payable at the rate of 20% and 10%.
How will the contribution of PF change?
The central government has frozen the DA of the employees by June 2021. However, the Modi government has now made it clear that the dearness allowance will be restored from July 1. The three stalled installments of DA – January 2020 to June 2020, July 2020 to December 2020 and January 2021 to June 2021 will be added to the salaries of the central employees. Now, the provident fund (PF) contribution is calculated by adding the basic salary and DA of the central employees. In such a situation, if DA increases then the PF contribution will also increase automatically. The benefit of which will be visible to the employees in the long term. Right now the employees get DA, DR at the rate of 17 percent, it can increase to 28 percent.
Increase in DA will also benefit
Let us tell you that only last month, Minister of State for Finance Anurag Thakur had told in a written reply in Rajya Sabha that from July 1, all employees of the Central Government will get full benefit of DA. They will also get the benefit of the increase in DA along with the freezed DA from January to June 2021.
28% DA DA Mathematics
From July 1, there will be a huge jump in the salaries of central employees and pension of pensioners. The latest data from the AICPI (All India Consumer Price Index) reported that at least 4% DA is estimated for the period from January to June 2021, according to a report published in media reports. It is expected that 3% DA for January to June 2020 and 4% DA announced from July to December 2020 will also be added to the existing DA of Central employees, which is currently 17%. That means the total (17 + 4 + 3 + 4) will be 28 percent DA.
