DA Hike: The Tripura government has given a big relief to the state employees and pensioners. Chief Minister Manik Saha on Friday announced a 3% hike in dearness allowance (DA). This hike will be effective from April 1, 2025. After this hike, state government employees will now get 33% DA
DA Hike: The Tripura government has given a big relief to the state employees and pensioners. Chief Minister Manik Saha on Friday announced a 3% hike in dearness allowance (DA). This hike will come into effect from April 1, 2025. After this hike, state government employees will now get 33% DA, which was earlier 30%. The Chief Minister said in the Assembly that this decision will put an additional financial burden of Rs 300 crore annually on the government.
Attempts to reduce DA gap of central and state employees
Chief Minister Saha said that the government wants to reduce the difference in DA of state and central government employees. However, this process will be completed gradually. This decision will provide relief to thousands of government employees and pensioners of Tripura.
Central employees waiting for DA hike
More than 1 crore central employees and pensioners of the country are eagerly waiting for DA hike. DA is likely to increase by 2%. If this happens, the dearness allowance will increase from 53% to 55%. However, the demand of employee organizations is for a 3% increase, which can take the DA to 56%. Last year in October 2024, the government had increased the DA by 3%, increasing it from 50% to 53%. Now if the government increases it by 2%, the DA will become 55% and if it increases by 3%, it can go up to 56%.
