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Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi announced Dearness Allowance hike of 8% for the employees of TamilNadu state government.


The government hiked the Dearness Allowance and also extended the benefits to pensioners too. The revised DA will be payable from Jan 1, 2010.

The hike in the dearness allowance for Tamil Nadu government employees has come following the recent announcement of the Central government’s eight per cent hike in DA for its employees. A directive was issued in this regard by Chief Minister M Karunanidhi, the release said, adding this will cost the state exchequer an additional sum of Rs 1,447.76 crore annually.

The Tamil Nadu state government has doubled the amount being paid for most of the 26 types of allowances. Even an employee at the bottom rung stood to gain.

The hike, with retrospective effective from June 1, in the cash component of these allowances would benefit employees including police personnel, nurses, cooks in prisons and forest bungalows, copy-writers in courts and registrar offices, uniformed personnel, employees working in hilly areas, junior assistants in ministerial services, assistant public prosecutors and doctors.

The present overcoat allowance of Rs.265 and Rs. 300 paid to civil assistant surgeons and civil surgeons respectively would be doubled. Similarly, doctors, technicians and attendants conducting post-mortem would receive double the allowance.

Winter allowance has been revised for those working in places situated at 1,000 metres and above while the hill allowance has been retained at the rate of 20 per cent of pay subject to enhancement of the maximum ceiling limit from Rs 450 to Rs 900 per month. Employees drawing grade pay of Rs 8,800 or more are eligible for air or airconditioned first class rail travel.

Officers drawing the grade pay of Rs 10,000 and above are eligible to travel by air in executive class.

Source: expressbuz.com