8th Pay Commission, Salary Hike: The dearness allowance for employees is increased twice a year by the central government. Recently, a big update related to DA has come out for central employees. The government is now going to merge DA (DA hike) into the salary of the employees soon, after which it will be started again from zero. Let us know in detail from which month DA will become zero and what will be the benefit of this to the employees (govt employees news).
8th Pay Commission, Fitment Factor hike: Currently, the central government is giving the benefit of salary and DA etc. to the employees under the Seventh Pay Commission. In the 7th Pay Commission, the government had made many big changes for the employees. Now the central government is considering implementing the 8th Pay Commission (8th Pay Commission latest update) for the employees. According to the latest update, as soon as the new pay commission is implemented, DA will become zero due to merging in the salary.
Pay matrix has to be considered first-
The central government has approved the formation of the 8th Pay Commission a few days ago. However, the chairman and panel of this pay commission have not been formed yet. After completing this work, the new pay matrix (8th CPC pay matrix) of the employees will be brainstormed by the central government.
Revision in the salary and allowances of central employees and pensioners is also expected. Employees will benefit greatly from the implementation of the 8th Pay Commission. Under this, dearness allowance update will be merged in the salary of the employees. The DA given to the employees by the government will be zeroed and restarted.
These recommendations will be implemented soon-
The recommendations of the Pay Commission will be implemented by the government for revision of the salary of the employees. Due to the implementation of the 8th Pay Commission, it is going to have the greatest impact on the dearness allowance. The government can once again make the dearness allowance of central employees zero. This means that the government can merge the dearness allowance into the basic pay as soon as the pay commission is implemented.
These are the rules regarding DA-
According to the estimates made by experts, by January 2026, the dearness allowance (DA hike update) can reach the level of 63 percent. According to the rules, whenever the DA of the employees crosses the level of 50 percent, it is made zero and merged again in the salary of the employees. But even when the DA is 50 percent, it has not been merged by the central government. In such a situation, now there are discussions that as soon as the government implements the recommendations of the new pay commission (pay revision), the DA will also be added to the basic salary and made zero.
Only this much DA will be merged-
According to the discussions going on between the employees and experts, only 50 percent DA (DA zero kab kiya jayega) will be merged. Apart from this, whatever DA there is, the government will not merge it. Till now the government has not taken any final decision on this. In such a situation, it remains to be seen whether the entire DA is merged by the government (latest govt. update) or the government merges only 50 percent DA. At present, employees are getting 53 percent DA.
DA calculation will start from zero-
After implementing the 8th Pay Commission, the central government is going to calculate DA on the new basic salary (Basic salary in 8th CPC) for the employees. After this, the government will start DA again from 0. For example, if the basic salary of an employee is Rs 34200 and his dearness allowance is made zero from January 2026, then after this, in July 2026 (DA in July 2026) it will be added up to 3-4 percent (whatever the dearness allowance will be). After this, further salary calculation will be done for the employees. Due to the dearness allowance becoming zero, its effect will be seen on many other allowances as well.
This suggestion was given in the 7th Pay Commission –
On the implementation of the 8th Pay Commission, the dearness allowance of the employees (Update for employees) will be added to the basic salary. If the dearness allowance of the employees is increased by 50 percent or more by the Central Government, then due to this it will be merged in the new pay commission. This suggestion has also been given in the 7th Pay Commission. The increase in dearness allowance (DA merge in salary) is done on the basis of Consumer Price Index (CPI) only. CPI changes from time to time according to inflation. Due to this, changes are also seen in the DA of employees.
This is how DA is calculated-
If DA is added to the basic salary, then changes will be seen in the salary of the employees. For example, if the basic salary of an employee is currently Rs 18,000 and dearness allowance is 50 percent, then according to this, DA will be Rs 9 thousand. If DA is added to the basic salary after the implementation of the 8th Pay Commission (8th pay commission update), then due to this the basic salary of the employees will become Rs 27,000.
Therefore, discussions increased about merging dearness allowance-
Usually, when DA crosses 50 percent, discussions start arising about merging it in the salary (DA merger). Whenever a new pay scale is implemented, DA is added to the basic salary. This has happened before, that is why now the employees are expecting it to be merged (DA kab merge hoga). Although many experts believe that it will not be merged, the government has also cleared its stand about keeping it separate from the salary.
DA has been merged in salary earlier too-
Experts say that according to the rules, all the DA (DA 0 kab hoga) received by the employees should be merged in the basic salary, but the government does not do so because increasing the revenue burden in this is seen as a problem. However, the decision to merge DA (DA merge krne ka niyam) was taken earlier, apart from the year 2016, this also happened in the year 2006. At the time of implementation of the Sixth Pay Commission in 2006, under the previous i.e. fifth pay commission, DA had reached 187 percent by December. This entire DA was added to the basic salary.
This is what experts say-
Regarding the dearness allowance becoming zero, experts have also said that it can become zero in January 2026. When the 8th Pay Commission is implemented in 2026, it can be merged into the basic salary and it can be restarted by making the dearness allowance zero. When there is a further DA hike (DA hike news), its calculation will start again after zero. The AICPI index data from January to June 2026 will decide how much percentage the next dearness allowance will increase, and accordingly the DA calculation will start.
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