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The Union <keyword id="6355513" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="cabinet" source="Orion">Cabinet</keyword> on Wednesday approved a four per cent increase in <keyword id="6429991" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="dearness-allowance" source="Orion">Dearness Allowance</keyword> (DA) for Central government employees and Dearness Relief for pensioners. Briefing reporters about the decisions of the union cabinet, Information and Broadcasting Minister <keyword id="6364468" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="anurag-thakur" source="Orion">Anurag Thakur</keyword> said the decision will be implemented from July 1 this year. "Dearness Allowance for Central government employees and Dearness Relief for pensioners has been increased by 4%. The <keyword id="663200" type="General" weightage="60" keywordseo="DA-hike" source="Orion">DA hike</keyword> will be implemented from 1, July 2023," he said. The decision will benefit 48.67 lakh Central Government Employees and 67.95 lakh pensioners. The minister said the decision has come in the festival season and will benefit both the central government employees and pensioners. Generous bonus for railway employees The Cabinet has also granted approval for a Productivity Linked Bonus (PLB) that amounts to 78 days wages for eligible non-gazetted Railway employees. This bonus is for the financial year 2022-23 and will benefit a wide array of railway staff, including Track maintainers, Loco Pilots, Train Managers (Guards), Station Masters, Supervisors, Technicians, Technician Helpers, Points man, Ministerial Staff, and other Group 'C' staff, excluding Railway Protection Force (RPF)/ Railway Protection Special Force (RPSF) personnel, read the press release issued by Cabinet. This move comes in recognition of the outstanding performance of the railway employees throughout the financial year 2022-23. The Union Government has sanctioned a PLB totalling Rs 1,968.87 crores, which will be disbursed to approximately 1,107,346 railway employees, read the press release. (This copy will be updated)

Dearness allowance of central government employees hiked by 4%

New Delhi, Apr 25 () Current and retired employees of BSNL have opposed the government's decision to freeze dearness allowance (DA) for 18 months, starting January 1, 2020. All India BSNL-DOT Pensioners Association (AIBDPA), representing more than one lakh of pensioners retired from Department of Telecom and BSNL, on Saturday said that their members have already contributed to the Prime Minister and Chief Minister's relief funds according to their ability and deduction will put pensioners to extreme difficulty. The BSNL Employees' Union (BSNL EU) called the move a retrograde action and a "big attack on the livelihood of the central government employees and pensioners" while denouncing the action of the government.Both bodies alleged the government of favouring corporates by way of giving loan waivers, tax rebates, etc and questioned the decision of DA freeze which adversely impacts many low income employees."Government has waived bad loans worth Rs 5.5 lakh crore. An overwhelming portion of these bad loans were defaulted by the big corporates. By waiving the bad loans so massively, the government had only facilitated the big corporates to loot people's money. In view of the foregoing, BSNL EU wishes to state that the DA freeze imposed on the central government employees and pensioners is most unjustified," BSNL EU said.AIBDPA said that the government-run BSNL has stopped medical allowance and reimbursement of medical treatment expenses for the last two years on the plea of lack of funds and the pensioners are dependent upon their meagre pension. "Many of these pensioners draw minimum pension which is insufficient even for day to day expenses. It is at this crucial time that the decision to freeze DR (dearness relief) for 18 months has been issued. This amount will increase according to the increase in pension which will put the pensioners to extreme difficulty," the retired employees' body said. According to AIBDPA, the DR cut will be about Rs 17,000 (for the 18-month period) or more for a pensioner getting about Rs 10,000 monthly pension. PRS MKJ

BSNL employees oppose govt decision to freeze DA hike

<ul><li>The <keyword id="44734" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Indian-Government">Indian government</keyword> today said that it will freeze the <keyword id="6429991" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="dearness-allowance">Dearness Allowance</keyword> (DA) revision for the <keyword id="772729" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Central-government-employees">central government employees</keyword> and <keyword id="6379276" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="pensioners">pensioners</keyword>. </li><li>According to the official notification from the Ministry of Finance, the three installments of DA, starting January 2020, have been put on hold until June 2021. </li><li>However, the DA at the current rates, that is at 17% of basic pay or pension, shall be paid. </li><li>The move will impact over 48 lakh employees and more than 65 lakh pensioners. </li></ul>For the next year and a half, around 11 million central government employees and pensioners will not receive any <a href="https://twitter.com/ANI/status/1253229433462218752?s=20">revision in dearness allowance</a>. Ideally, this is given every six months and starting January 2020, no revision will happen, as per a government directive. It basically means that DA will stay where it currently is. However, this is only a temporary move and will last till June 2021. But the employees will not be any arrears for the lost time. DA will be paid at the current rates, that is at 17% of basic pay or pension. DA is a component of the salary or pension of the onroll and retired central government employees. The government revises this component of the salary and benchmarks it to inflation, to ensure their employees standard of life is maintained. According to a notification from the Ministry of Finance, three DA revisions, starting January 2020, have been put on hold until July 2021 in wake of the global pandemic. “Additional installment of Dearness Allowance payable to central government employees and Dearness Relief to central government pensioners, due from 1st January, 2020 shall not be paid,” ANI reported citing the ministry announcement. The move will impact over 4.8 million employees and more than 6.5 million pensioners. In March, the government approved a 4% hike in DA. This, if implemented, would have cost the economy an additional ₹14,510 crore in FY21. "There is a need for major increase in the expenditure on health as well as on welfare measures for various affected sections of the society including the poor and the vulnerable," the government notice said. With this, the government plans to save ₹37,350 crore in FY21 and FY22. The government notice also added that if the state government also replicates the development, the combined savings can go as high as <a href="http://ndtv.com/india-news/three-instalments-of-dearness-allowance-to-central-government-employees-put-on-hold-amid-covid-19-cr-2216812">1.2 lakh crore</a>, which can be utilized to contain <keyword id="1754604" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="coronavirus">Coronavirus</keyword>. However, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/india/news/after-telangana-maharashtra-announces-60-pay-cut-for-government-employees/articleshow/74912477.cms">state governments like Telangana, Odisha and Maharashtra</a> have already cut salaries of their employees, to make up for lost excise and other revenues and increased spending on health and welfare. See also: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/india/news/indigo-rolls-back-salary-cut-in-april-at-governments-request/articleshow/75318669.cms">IndiGo rolls back salary cut in April at government's request</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/india/news/lockdown-in-india-has-impacted-40-million-internal-migrants-says-world-bank/articleshow/75312016.cms">Lockdown in India has impacted 40 million internal migrants, says World Bank</a>

Over 11 million central government employees and pensioners will not get Dearness Allowance hike till June 2021

New Delhi, Mar 13 () The Union Cabinet on Friday approved 4 per cent hike in dearness allowance (DA) to 21 per cent for central government employees, costing the exchequer an additional Rs 14,595 crore.Briefing the media I&amp;B Minister Prakash Javadekar said the Cabinet had approved 4 per cent hike in DA to 21 pc for 48 lakh govt employees, 65 lakh pensioners.He further said the government will incur Rs 14,595 crore additional expense on account of this hike. NKD BKS MJH MKJ

Cabinet clears 4 pc DA hike for central government employees

The Union Cabinet has given nod to 7% hike in <keyword id="6429991" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="dearness-allowance">dearness allowance</keyword> (DA) for the central government employees. This will benefit 30 lakh working employees and 50 lakh pensioners. With this hike, the DA has now increased up to 107% of the basic pay. 
 “The Union Cabinet chaired by the <keyword id="71" type="POSITION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Prime-Minister">Prime Minister</keyword> <keyword id="6354477" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Narendra-Modi">Narendra Modi</keyword> today gave its approval for the release of an additional installment of dearness allowance to central government employees and dearness relief (DR) to pensioners with effect from July 1. This is an increase of 7% over the existing rate of 100% of the basic pay/pension, to compensate for price rise,” a government statement said. 
 
The Centre said that this increase is in line with the recommendations of the 6th Central Pay Commission. “The combined impact on the exchequer on account of both dearness allowance and dearness relief would be of the order of approximately Rs 7,691 crore per annum and Rs 5,127 crore respectively in the financial year 2014-2015 (i.e. for a period of eight months from July, 2014 to February, 2015),” it said.

7% DA Hike For Central Govt Employees

Government employees and pensioners across the country have switched on the rejoicing mode. Staying true to its words, the Modi govt has announced a hike in the Dearness Allowance(DA), which will mean further increase in the pay package of the government employees. 
 
As per the sources, DA was hiked to 119 %, up 6 % points. This will supposedly benefit over 1 crore government employees and pensioners. 
"The proposal to increase dearness allowance by six percentage points (from 113 %) to 119 % was approved by Union Cabintoday," a source said. 
 
The DA hike will take effect from July 1. As per the agreed formula, the DA rate increase is an average of 12-month consumer price index-industrial workers from July 1, 2014 to June 30, 2015. 
 
In April, the government had hiked DA by 6 % to 113 % of their basic pay with effect from January. DA is paid as proportion of the basic pay. 
 
The DA hike is in accordance with the accepted formula based on the recommendations of the 6th Pay Commission, which will benefit 48 lakh government employees and 55 lakh pensioners.

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