Giving a Diwali gift to the State government employees, the State Cabinet on Monday decided to benefit them with additional six per cent dearness allowances (DA). The beneficiaries would include working and retired State Government servants.
This increase will be made in the salaries for the month of October 2011 that would be paid in the end of this month, before Diwali. Presently, Government servants were getting dearness allowance/relief at the rate of 45 per cent. They will now start getting 51 per cent DA after sanction of additional DA of 6 per cent.
The cabinet has sanctioned additional dearness allowance at the rate of 10 per cent of basic pay of October 2011 for teacher cadres of panchayati raj institutions and local bodies and Panchayat Secretaries. Thus, they will now get 142 per cent dearness allowance by including earlier increase of 35 percent and dearness allowance.
Sanction of additional dearness allowance will entail an annual burden of Rs 905.76 crore on the State Government.
Due to increase in dearness allowance, the State Government will have to bear an additional burden of `377.40 crore during the current fiscal (2011).
The cabinet has decided to pay salary of month of October with increased DA to the Government servants on October 24-25 because of Diwali festival.
Source : The Pioneer.
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