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Mar 16, 2017

DA hiked by 2% from Jan 2017 for central government employees

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DA hiked by 2% from Jan 2017 for central government employees
The dearness allowance (DA) hike for central government employees and pensioners approved by the cabinet will be applicable from 1 January 2017

The dearness allowance is paid as a proportion of the basic pay of the central government employees. Photo: Hemant Mishra/Mint
The dearness allowance is paid as a proportion of the basic pay of the central government employees. Photo: Hemant Mishra/Mint
New Delhi: The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved a 2% hike in dearness allowance (DA) and dearness relief to 4% from January 1, 2017, benefiting 48.85 central government employees and 55.51 lakh pensioners.
“The Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has approved release of an additional instalment of dearness allowance to central government employees and dearness relief to pensioner with effect from January 1, 2017,” an official statement said.
The DA/DR has been hiked by 2 per cent over the existing rate of 2 per cent of the basic pay/pension to compensate for price rise and it is in accordance with the accepted formula based on the recommendation of 7th pay commission, the statement said.
This hike in DA/DR will benefit 48.85 lakh central government employees and 55.51 lakh pensioners, it said. The statement said that the combined impact on the exchequer on account of both dearness allowance and dearness relief would be Rs 5,857.28 crore per annum and Rs 6,833.50 crore in the Financial Year 2017-18 (for a period of 14 months from January, 2017 to February, 2018).
The hike in the DA hike is as per the agreed methodology of taking average of Consumer Price Index-Industrial Workers for the past 12 months.
The Confederation of Central Government Employees had termed it as a meagre hike in view of actual rise in cost of living index saying the CPI-IW was far from reality. The union had also said that there was a lot of variation in the rates of price rise of commodities by Ministry of Agriculture and CPI-IW.


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