CABINET COMMITTEE APPROVED
7% DEARNESS ALLOWANCE HIKE FOR CENTRAL GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AND PENSIONERS
The Union Cabinet today
approved to increase Dearness Allowance by 7% to Central Government employees.
Revised rates effective
from 1.7.2011.
Finance Ministry will publish
detailed Office Memorandum regarding this issue within this month.
The amount of additional
instalment of Dearness allowance and the arrears for two months will be paid in
cash to all Central Government employees.
This will benefit more than
50 lakh serving employees and 38 lakh pensioners.
This hike was made on the
basis of the calculation of All India Consumer Price Index (Industrial Workers)
published by Labour Breau.
This DA hike will be impact
in the Transport allowance also, according to the classes of cities (5400 GP
and above = Rs.3200 + DA thereon, below 4200 GP = Rs.600 + DA thereon and above
4200 GP = Rs.1600 + DA thereon).
The highest rate of
additional Derness allowance is 10% from July 2010 and the least of these
2% from July 2006, after 6th CPC.
The calculation of Dearness
allowance is with the Pay in the pay band plus Grade Pay multiple with 58% is
equal to Revised payment of DA from July, 2011.
The additional DA
calculation is based on the previous 12 months of average on AICPIN(IW)
from Jul-2010 to June-2011.
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