In the new year, the central and state governments are giving gifts to their workers.
There is a big good news for the central government employees which they were waiting for a long time. Earlier, the Central Government had allowed 31 percent Dearness Allowance (DA).
And now there’s going to be another big announcement soon! If reports are to be believed, there may be a meeting with the Cabinet Secretary on this issue before Christmas.
It is being told that talks were held between National Council of JCM, Department of Personnel and Training and Ministry of Finance regarding DA dues .
Employees unions raised demand
However, no final decision has been taken in this regard yet. Despite this, the employees unions are demanding DA arrears. And they are also demanding that the DA’s Arrears stuck for 18 months should be paid in a lump sum.
It is also expected that the issue may be discussed with the cabinet secretary in December for one-time settlement of 18 months DA arrears.
The central government will take the final decision.
Now the central government has to take a final decision regarding the DA arrears of 18 months, due to which the employees are looking very happy, if the central government gives green signal on this, then a large amount will come in the bank account of the employees.
Earlier, the central government had increased the DA to 31 percent. 48 lakh central government employees and more than 65 lakh pensioners are getting its benefit.
The minimum increase will be up to Rs.8000.
Let us inform that at present the employees are getting 2.57 percent salary under the fitment factor. If it is increased to 3.68 per cent, then there will be a minimum increase of Rs 8,000 in salary.
If someone’s minimum salary is Rs 18000, then with an increase of Rs 8000, it will become Rs 26000. Apart from this, DA is also expected to increase once again in January 2022, although it is yet to be decided how much dearness allowance will be increased.
Which states took the decision to increase DA/salary?
Andhra Pradesh
The state government approved the payment of 5.24 percent Dearness Allowance (DA) with effect from January, 2022. An order to this effect was issued by the Finance Department on Monday.
The payment of DA to the employees is pending since July 1, 2019. While the DA will be paid in cash along with the salary for January, 2022, the arrears of the accounts for the payment of DA from July, 2019 to December 31, 2021 will be credited.
Himachal Pradesh
The Himachal government today approved the revised pay scales of about two lakh employees as per the recommendations of the Sixth Pay Commission, which will put an additional burden of Rs 4,000 crore on the exchequer.
This decision was taken in the cabinet meeting held here under the chairmanship of Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur. Employees will get January salary due in February 2022 as per the revised pay scale.
The government has already given an interim relief of about Rs 5,000 crore to the employees as arrears.
The government will have to spend Rs 260 crore as its contribution in the new pension scheme. It was also decided to increase the salary of contractual employees.
Uttar Pradesh
The government of Uttar Pradesh has also announced to give a big gift to the employees of the state before the new year.
After giving the benefit of increase in dearness allowance to the state employees of 7th pay scale from July 2021, the state government has also issued an order to give Dearness Allowance (DA) to the employees of 5th and 6th pay scales at an increased rate from July 1.
