New Delhi. The Narendra Modi government of the Center is going to give the gift of bonus on Diwali to some central employees. The Ministry of Finance said that 30 days Diwali bonus will be given to paramilitary forces.
It has been approved to give Non-Productivity Linked Bonus equal to 30 days’ salary to Central Government Employees. The benefit of this will be available to all those non-gazetted employees of Group-C and Group-B of the Central Government, who are not covered under any Productivity Linked Bonus Scheme.
These conditions will have to be fulfilled for the bonus.
According to the Ministry of Finance, the benefit of adhoc bonus will be available to the eligible employees of central paramilitary forces and armed forces. Apart from this, those employees of Union Territories will also get the benefit of this, who follow the pattern of Emoluments of the Central Government and are not covered by any other bonus of the Central Government. The benefit of adhoc bonus will be available only to those employees who were in service as on 31st March 2021 and have been in continuous service for at least six months during the year 2020-21. In this, the employees working for 6 months to one year will be given bonus in the same proportion.
This is how Diwali Bonus will be calculated
The average number of days in a month will be divided by the average number of days in a month by 30.4. For example Rs 7000 would be 7000×30/30.4 = Rs 6907.89.
Casual labor working in offices for at least 240 days every year for 3 years or more under 6 days a week will get the benefit. The amount of adhoc bonus for these will be 1200×30/30.4 = Rs 1184.21.
Recently many announcements have been made for central employees
In the festive season, the DA and DR of central government employees may again increase by 3 percent. With this, the DA and DR of central employees and pensioners will increase from 28 percent to 31 percent of the basic salary. Apart from the increase in DA and DR, the central government employees will also get some other benefits, which were announced recently. The limit of family pension of central employees has been increased from Rs 45000 to Rs 1.25 lakh. The Center had taken this step to help the families of the deceased employees and provide them adequate financial assistance.
