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Earlier in April, the government had hiked Dearness Allowance by 6 per cent to 113 per cent of their basic pay with effect from January.
The proposed DA hike will take effect from July 1. As per the agreed formula, the DA rate increase is an average of 12-month consumer price index-industrial workers from July 1, 2014 to June 30, 2015.
The Cabinet is likely to consider tomorrow a proposal to increase Dearness Allowance (DA) to 119 per cent from 113 per cent, which if cleared will potentially benefit over one crore government employees and pensioners.
“The proposal to increase dearness allowance by six percentage points to 119 per cent is likely to be taken up by the Cabinet tomorrow,” a source said.
Earlier in April, the government had hiked Dearness Allowance by 6 per cent to 113 per cent of their basic pay with effect from January. DA is paid as proportion of the basic pay.
The proposed DA hike will take effect from July 1. As per the agreed formula, the DA rate increase is an average of 12-month consumer price index-industrial workers from July 1, 2014 to June 30, 2015.
The proposed hike is in accordance with the accepted formula based on the recommendations of the 6th Pay Commission, which will benefit 48 lakh government employees and 55 lakh pensioners.
However, president of Confederation of Central Government Employees’ and Workers K K N Kutty said: “The government should have given interim relief and merged DA with basic pay in view of the extension of term of the 7th Pay Commission by four months till December 31, 2015.”
Elaborating, Kutty added: “The government assured employees that the 7th Pay Commission will submit its report in 18 months. It’s delaying submission of the report by the commission because it doesn’t want to increase its salaries bill this fiscal.”
He further said that keeping in view the real rate of price rise, DA should have been 185 per cent of the basic pay.
Last month, the Cabinet had given approval for the extension of the term of the 7th Central Pay Commission by four months up to December 31.
The proposed DA hike will take effect from July 1. As per the agreed formula, the DA rate increase is an average of 12-month consumer price index-industrial workers from July 1, 2014 to June 30, 2015.
The Cabinet is likely to consider tomorrow a proposal to increase Dearness Allowance (DA) to 119 per cent from 113 per cent, which if cleared will potentially benefit over one crore government employees and pensioners.
“The proposal to increase dearness allowance by six percentage points to 119 per cent is likely to be taken up by the Cabinet tomorrow,” a source said.
Earlier in April, the government had hiked Dearness Allowance by 6 per cent to 113 per cent of their basic pay with effect from January. DA is paid as proportion of the basic pay.
The proposed hike is in accordance with the accepted formula based on the recommendations of the 6th Pay Commission, which will benefit 48 lakh government employees and 55 lakh pensioners.
However, president of Confederation of Central Government Employees’ and Workers K K N Kutty said: “The government should have given interim relief and merged DA with basic pay in view of the extension of term of the 7th Pay Commission by four months till December 31, 2015.”
Elaborating, Kutty added: “The government assured employees that the 7th Pay Commission will submit its report in 18 months. It’s delaying submission of the report by the commission because it doesn’t want to increase its salaries bill this fiscal.”
He further said that keeping in view the real rate of price rise, DA should have been 185 per cent of the basic pay.
Last month, the Cabinet had given approval for the extension of the term of the 7th Central Pay Commission by four months up to December 31.
DA Hike of 6% for central government employees - Aicpin for the month of June 2015
Saturday, August 1, 2015
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New Delhi: The government is likely to approve a hike in dearness allowance (DA) to 119 per cent from the existing 113 per cent, benefiting the around 30 lakh central government employees and 50 lakh pensioners including dependents.
“The average rate of retail inflation for industrial workers from July 1, 2014 to June 30, 2015 works out to be 6.77 per cent. Thus the Central government will hike dearness allowance for it employees by 6 per cent,” an official said.
He further said the Finance Ministry will put a Cabinet proposal in September for approval of 6 per cent dearness allowance hike from July 1 this year as the revised Consumer Price Index number for Industrial Workers for June was released by Labour Ministry on Friday.
With increase in DA, the pensioners will also gain as the benefit provided to them as dearness relief will be hiked to 119 per cent of pension.
The government had increased DA to 113 per cent from 107 per cent with effect from January 1, 2015, on April 7 on the basis of agreed formula for revision of the allowance.
However, the central government employees’ union is not very enthused by the 6 per cent hike in the dearness allowance as their long pending demand of merger of DA with basic pay has not been given heed by Seventh Pay Commission and the government.
“The erosion of value of wages is unbearable at 50 per cent dearness allowance. Now it will be 119 per cent. It is high time to merge DA with basic pay to provide relief to employees,” a leader of a central government employees’ union said.
“We had submitted our memorandum in this regard to Seventh Pay Commission. They forwarded it to Central Government. We have so many times apprised about the issue to the government. But no decision has been taken so far,” he said.
