Sunday, 14 January 2024 | PNS | DEHRADUN
The State exchequer will get additional burden of Rs 500 crore as DA of employees increases from 42 to 46 per cent
In what can be called a New Year gift for lakhs of State government employees and pensioners, the Uttarakhand government on Saturday issued orders for increasing the Dearness Allowance (DA) by four per cent. The employees and pensioners will now get 46 per cent DA of their basic salary. The decision will benefit about two lakh employees and 1.25 lakh pensioners of the State government.
The revised DA would be applicable from July 1 this last. The employees would receive the arrear of the increased salary for the period of July 1 to December 31, 2023 in cash while from January 1 this year the increased DA will be given with the salary. The orders for increase in the DA of the employees and pensioners were released by the additional secretary Ganga Prasad on Saturday. The chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami had approved the proposal for increasing the DA on Friday.
The order would be applicable to all employees of the State government, aided teaching institutes, workers of the local bodies and the recipients of the University Grants Commission (UGC) scales. However the order will not be applicable to the judges of High Court , chairman and members of Uttarakhand Public Service Commission (UkPSC), civil/family pensioners of local bodies and Public Undertaking Corporations in respect of whom separate orders will have to be issued by respective departments.
The increase in the DA would put an additional burden of about Rs 500 crore on the State exchequer. The salaries of the employees would witness an increase of Rs 800 to Rs 8,000 after the increase in DA. The order for increase in DA was being awaited anxiously by the State government employees and the employee organisations were putting pressure on the government for this.
