OdishaPlus Bureau
As per the recommendation of 7th Pay Commission the employees of the Central government are likely to get a hike in Dearness Allowance (DA) for the January-June 2020 period from July 2021 on wards.
A rise in the inflation during the January-June 2020 period by 2% may result a hike in DA for the central government employees as per Labour Ministry’s AICPI (All India Consumer Price Index) due to which the government employees may get a 3 % hike in their DA.
The central government employees are presently getting 17% DA. Meanwhile, the Centre recently freezed the DA till June 2021 due to the Coronavirus crisis. However, the BJP later denied the claims. The additional hike over 17%, currently paid, will be reinstated prospectively, effective January 2020. “When the government decides to release the installments of DA and DR from 1 July, 2021, the effective rates from January 2020, July 2020 and January 2021 will be restored prospectively and will be subsumed in the cumulative revised rate effective from 1 July, 2021,” BJP said in an official tweet.
