Latest Update DA Hike News : At present, such news is coming out that the employees can get the benefit of three to four percent increase in dearness allowance by the central government this month. A decision can be taken in the third week of September regarding whether the government will give the benefit of three to four percent to the employees or not.
Let us tell you that the central government provides dearness allowance to provide relief to employees and pensioners. Employees may get an increase in DA by the end of September by the government. Information is coming that an increase of three to four percent in DA can be announced in the third week of September.
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Apart from this, at this time in March 2024, the government had increased the DA by 4%, due to which the basic salary of the employees reached 50%. Recently, the government has also announced the launch of Unified Pension Scheme UPS, which is news related to the benefits of central employees.
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The central government provides DA and DR to its employees and pensioners to provide them relief from inflation. DA is provided to central employees while DR is provided to pensioners. Apart from this, changes are made in DA and DR every year in January and July.
Reason for stopping DA
Union Minister of State for Finance Pankaj Chaudhary had told in the recent honorary session of Parliament that due to the Corona epidemic, three installments of DA / DR of employees (1 January 2020, 1 July 2020 and 1 January 2021) were stopped because at that time the country was facing an economic crisis and this important step was taken to reduce the financial pressure on the government.
Demand for formation of Eighth Pay Commission
Many employees of the Central Government are continuously demanding the formation of the Eighth Pay Commission, however, no such decision has come out from the government which can give information whether the government is in the mood to form a new pay commission or not.
Union Minister of State for Finance Pankaj Choudhary had said in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha on July 30 that two applications have been received for constituting the Pay Commission on June 24, 2024 and no consideration has been given by the government on it yet.
The Seventh Pay Commission was constituted in February 2014 in the country, whose recommendations were implemented on 1 January 2016. Apart from this, a new Pay Commission is constituted every 10 years to review the salaries of government employees and a lot of time has passed since the formation of the last Pay Commission, due to which the wait for the formation of a new Pay Commission is increasing.
