DA Hike Latest News: Dearness Allowance (DA) is added to the salary of government employees to provide them relief from inflation. During the last few days, many state governments are increasing the dearness allowance one after the other.
Now the Tamil Nadu government has announced to increase the Dearness Allowance (TN DA Hike) in the state. With this, the salary of the state government employees will now increase, while the retired state government employees will get more pension.
Will be applicable from 1st April only
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin (TN CM MK Stalin) announced to increase DA on Wednesday. He said that the state government has given approval to increase the dearness allowance by four per cent for the employees and pensioners of the state government in the Seventh Pay Commission. According to the official statement issued by the state government, this decision to increase DA will be applicable from the beginning of the financial year itself. This means that Tamil Nadu government employees and pensioners will get the benefit of increased DA from April 1, 2023 only.
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Till now Tamil Nadu government employees and pensioners were getting the benefit of dearness allowance at the rate of 38 per cent. Now the rate of dearness allowance will increase to 42 percent. It has also been told in the statement that from April 1, 2023, the eligible employees and pensioners will be given the benefit of the increased rate of dearness allowance. For this everyone will be paid arrears.
will cost the exchequer so much
In the statement of the state government, it was said that by increasing the dearness allowance, the employees and pensioners of the state government will be directly benefited. After this they will get more salary and pension every month. According to the statement, the increase in DA will directly benefit 16 lakh people. At the same time, due to the implementation of this decision, there will be a burden of Rs 2,367 crore every year on the exchequer of the state government.
These governments have also increased DA
Earlier, recently, the Yogi Adityanath-led Uttar Pradesh government has also increased the dearness allowance from 38 per cent to 42 per cent under the Seventh Pay Commission. The increased allowance in Uttar Pradesh is being implemented from January 1, 2023 itself. In April, the Bihar government had also announced to increase DA by 4 percent. In the same month, the Himachal Pradesh government implemented a 3 percent increase in DA.
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