The Centre is tomorrow likely to increase dearness allowance (DA) by 6% to 51%, benefiting over 50 lakh employees and 38 lakh pensioners.
The decision to hike DA is likely to be taken by the Union Cabinet at its meeting scheduled tomorrow, sources said.
The new DA, which will be effective from January 1, is provided to government staff and pensioners to compensate them for rising prices.
Presently, the DA is paid at 45% of the basic pay.
The increase in DA by 6%, sources said, would be in accordance with the formula prescribed by the Sixth Pay Commission for central government employees.
The decision will provide direct relief to around 50 lakh employees and 38 lakh pensioners.
The DA is revised twice in year with effect from January 1 and July 1. The relief comes amid high retail prices, as inflation has been ruling above 9%.
The Consumer Price Index (Industrial Workers), which is the basis for revising dearness allowance, was 9.47% in December and 9.30% in January.
The headline inflation, based on movement in wholesale prices was 8.31 in February, much above the comfort level of 5-6%. The food inflation, too, was hovering above 9%.
Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal Tuesday announced the release of dearness allowance (DA) for government employees and pensioners to mark the completion of four decades of attaining statehood.
Speaking at a state-level function at Hamirpur town, some 175 km from here, Dhumal announced the release of 10 percent DA, effective from July 1, 2010.
'The employees will get DA in cash from January 2011 and arrears would be credited in their general provident fund accounts,' he said.
All of us waiting for Dearness allowance percentage for January 2011, as per AICPIN calculation, we are going to get 6% Dearness allowance from January 2011.
Let us see the past Dearness allowance percentage for Central Government Employees.
Jharkhand government today announced 16 per cent Dearness Allowance to those employees, who are still covered under the Fifth Pay Commission.
The decision, which was taken at a cabinet meeting, chaired by Chief Minister Arjun Munda here, will take the present 87 per cent DA to 103 per cent, Cabinet Secretary Amrendra Prasad Singh told newsmen here.
Despite the implementation of the Sixth Pay Commission some of the employees had opted to continue with the Fifth Pay commission.
The West Bengal government today declared eight per cent dearness allowance for its employees and those belonging to government-aided institutions.
With effect from December 1, 2010, the government will provide the first instalment of DA for its staff, teachers, non-teaching employees of aided educational institutions, panchayats, municipalities, municipal corporations, public undertakings and statutory authorities, a finance department statement said.
The raised DA will benefit at least 10 lakh employees of the state government, teachers and staff of those state-aided institutions, the release said.
There will also be a corresponding increase in the pension of the state government and above organisations, thus benefiting nearly 4.6 lakh pensioners, the release said.
In continuation to this Department's OM No. 42/18/2010-P&PW(G) dated 29th June, 2010 sanctioning the Dearness Relief to those Central Government pensioners who are in receipt of provisional pension or pension in the pre-revised scales of 5th CPC, the President is pleased to grant the Dearness Relief to these Central Government pensioners as under :
(i) Those who are in receipt of provisional pension or pension in the pre revised scales of 5th CPC are entitled to Dearness Relief @ 103% w.e.f 1.7.2010.
(ii) The surviving CPF beneficiaries who have retired from service between the period 18.11.1960 to 31.12.1985 and are in receipt of ex-gratia @ Rs. 600/ p.m. w.e.f. 1.11.1997 under this Department's OM No. 45/52/97-P&PW(E) dated 16.12.1997 are entitled to Dearness Relief @ 103% w.e.f. 1.7.2010.
The Jharkhand government today announced ten per cent DA hike for government employees.The decision was taken at a cabinet meeting, chaired by Chief Minister Arjun Munda, Cabinet Secretary, Aditya Swaroop, told newsmen here.The DA of the employees rose from 35 per cent to 45 per cent which would cost the state excequer Rs 36 crore every month, he said.
To calculate dearness allowance percentage for January 2011, we have created auto update DA calculation sheet. In this DA calculation Sheet, AICPIN value get update automatically at the end of every month, finally at the end of December 2010, will come to know the Dearness Allowance percentage for January 2011. DA percentage has to be calculated based on All India Consumer Price Index for Industrial Workers (Base year 2001-100) value.
The Government of India, in its Office Memorandum third read above has enhanced the Dearness Allowance payable to its pensioners / family pensioners from 35% to 45% with effect from 1st July 2010.
