7th Pay Commission: Smiles are coming soon on the faces of 50 lakh central employees and 61 lakh pensioners, with the central government paying dearness allowance (DA) and dearness relief (DR) to its employees at the current 28 percent. Can give at inflation rate. These allowances have been stuck for a long time. The government had banned the increased allowances of employees due to Corona infection.
Allowance will be given at 28% inflation rate!
It is reported that the Association of Employees Confederation of Central Government Employees and Workers has kept an account of the current government treasury in front of Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, and requested the Finance Minister that Dearness allowance should be given to all government employees and pensioners at the current inflation rate of 28 percent. The association said that the central government employees worked with full dedication during Kovid. Many employees lost their lives while on duty. Keeping all these in mind, the Finance Minister should give his dearness allowance and dearness relief to all employees and pensioners at the rate of 28 per cent from January 2020.
Dearness allowance stopped since April 2020
In fact, in April 2020, the Finance Ministry stopped the dearness allowance and dearness relief to these central employees and pensioners. The government had taken this decision in view of the difficult circumstances caused by the Corona infection. The government had banned this till July 2021. But now it is expected that these allowances can be given from July.
Do not wait until July 2021: Association
During the Corona, industrial production which had gone down to 57%, it increased by 3.6% in October. Also, the situation has improved with the GST collection reaching Rs. 1,15,000 crore in December 2020 as against Rs. 97,597 crore in March 2020, which the association gave to the government and asked for dearness allowance and dearness relief now, for this July Wait till 2021.
Allowances banned due to corona
In view of the Corona epidemic crisis, the government stopped the additional allowances received by the central government employees and pensioners from 1 January 2020. The Department of Expenditure stated in a memorandum that the next installment of allowances from 1 July 2020 and 1 January 2021 will also not be given. However, DA, DR will continue to be paid at current rates. The Union government had approved a 4 percent increase in DA of its employees, which was increased from 17 percent to 21 percent.
Crores of rupees left by governments by stopping allowances
According to the news agency PTI, these savings will be Rs 37,530 crores jointly in the year 2021-22 and its earlier financial years, if the dearness allowance and dearness installment of central government employees is stopped. According to the PTI, state governments usually run on the orders of the Center. It is estimated that by stopping the installment of DA, DR, the state governments will save Rs 82,566 crore.
