LATEST DEARNESS ALLOWANCE NOTIFICATION: CENTRAL GOVERNMENT DECLARATIONS ABOUT DA
Like the Minister of state in Finance Ministry, Sh. Anurag Thakur said, the rate of DA increase effective from 01-01-2020, 01-07-2020, 01-01-2021 would be subsumed cumulatively in 01-07-2021 revision of DA. Meanwhile, No arrear will be provided to employee for the period between January 2020 to June 2021.
Since, till now, Central Government employee were getting 17% of DA, after the declaration of DA increase by the FM, now it will be 28%. So from now onwards (July 2021) Total 11% increased DA will be there.
During March 2020, an increase of 4% DA was declared, and it was though expected that the Central Government employees will get 17+4=21% DA, but due to ongoing pandemic situation, DA was continued to be 17%.
So, the overall summary is: 28% of Dearness Allowance to the Central Government Employee and Dearness Relief for the pensioners has been approved by the Cabinet.
Tags: Dearness allowance, Dearness Relief, DA/ DR inceased.