Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami on Wednesday announced four per cent hike in dearness allowance for 18 lakh employees, pensioners and family pensioners of the State government with retrospective effect from January 1.
The announcement follows the Central Government’s decision to hike DA for its employees who have not received the revised pay scale with effect from January 1, 2016.
The move would cost the exchequer an additional expenditure of Rs 986.77 crore. The government, had on December 15, 2016, given seven per cent DA hike to its staff.
The DA arrears from January to April 2017 would be credited to the bank accounts of employees and others. From May onwards, the DA hike would be given along with the monthly salary, the Chief Minister said in a statement here. While government employee s would get a minimum hike of Rs 244 to a maximum of Rs 3,080, the pensioners and family pensioners would get a minimum hike of Rs 122 to a maximum of Rs 1,540.
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