7th Pay Commission: By announcing increase in dearness allowance and dearness relief, the government of this state has given Diwali gift to its employees.
7th Pay Commission: Diwali 2024 is just a week away and the central government in the country had already made arrangements for lighting for government employees before Diwali. Apart from this, the governments of many states have also given gifts like dearness allowance and dearness relief to their government employees before Diwali. Now in this episode, the Arunachal Pradesh government has announced a three percent increase in dearness allowance (DA) and dearness relief (DR) for its regular employees and pensioners.
Announcement made by Arunachal Pradesh Deputy CM Chowna Mein
Arunachal Pradesh Deputy CM Chowna Mein has announced an increase in DA on Wednesday. Apart from this, he is also handling the charge of Finance, Planning and Investment Department. The increased DA and DR will come into effect in the state from July 1 and this decision will put an estimated burden of Rs 63.92 crore on the Arunachal Pradesh government from July 2024 to March 2025.
HRA of Arunachal Pradesh employees also increased
With the increase in DA and DR, the House Rent Allowance (HRA) has been increased to 30 percent, 20 percent and 10 percent for different categories of cities. Let us tell you that there are 68,818 regular government employees in the northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh. With the revision, DA and DR will increase by 3 percent from 50 percent to 53 percent.
The central government had increased the dearness allowance of government employees last week
The central government had increased the dearness allowance (DA) of government employees and dearness relief (Dearness Relief) of pensioners. Since then, many states have continuously announced to increase the fixed DA and DR. These announcements were made for about 1 crore government employees and pensioners (jointly) of the central government after the cabinet meeting last week.
