5% Dearness Allowance for West Bengal employees w.e.f. 01.04.2010 : Order issued.

Government of West Bengal
Finance Department
Audit Branch
No. : 2580-F(P) Kolkata, the 6th April, 2010.

M E M O R A N D U M

Subject : Grant of Dearness Allowance to the State Government employees
and further ad-hoc increase in the wages of daily rated workers
under the Government with effect from April 01, 2010.

1. The Governor is pleased to decide that the whole time State Government employees drawing Basic Pay (i.e. Band Pay + Grade Pay, NPA, if any) upto Rs.80000/- p.m. shall draw Dearness Allowance @ 27% with effect from April 01, 2010.


 The calculation of Dearness Allowance shall be made taking into
account the revised Band Pay, Grade Pay & NPA, if any but shall not include any other types of pay.

2. The Dearness Allowance sanctioned herein-above should be rounded off to the nearest rupee in each case.

3. The Governor has also been pleased to decide that there will be a further ad-hoc increase in the existing daily rate of wages by Rs.10/- (Rupees Ten) only with effect from April 01, 2010 for the daily rated workers under the Government whose wages are not regulated by any statutory provisions like the Minimum Wages Act, etc.

Sd/- S. K. Chattopadhyay
Special Secretary to the
Government of West Bengal
Finance Department

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