Tuesday, 04 April 2023 | PNS | DEHRADUN
Recent hike in the dearness allowance (DA) of the central government employees by the Union government has prompted a demand from the employee associations of Uttarakhand to increase their DA. A president of the State Employees Joint Council, Uttarakhand Arun Pandey met the additional chief secretary Radha Raturi at her office and demanded that the DA of the State government employees should be increased from the existing 38 per cent to 42 per cent. She asked the ACS, finance to act on the demand. Pandey also met ACS, finance Anand Bardhan on the issue. He said that the ACS has directed the officers of the finance department to present the file of the increase in DA.
Pandey said that the State government employees are receiving a DA of 38 per cent while the DA of central government employees has been increased to 42 per cent from January 1 this year. He said that in view of increasing prices it has become necessary to increase the DA of employees.
