WB issued order for increased D.A. wef 01.01.2019

State Govt. issued order for enhancement of D.A @18% for it's employees with effect from 1st January 2019. With this hike state employees, will get D.A. @125% of basic Pay including earlier D.A and Interim relief. This enhanced D.A. will be calculated taking into account of revised band Pay , Grad Pay, NPA, if any. The Interim Relief declared earlier will be discontinued from 1st January 2019.
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West Bengal announces 18% D.A. w.e.f. 01.01.2019

The West Bengal government would be giving an additional 18 per cent Dearness Allowance (DA) to state government employees from January next year, said media reports. The announcement came on Jamai Shashti, the ‘Day of the Son-in-Law’, when married men employed by the state government were given half a day’s paid holiday, said ndtv.com.

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Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said the government would also merge the 10 percent interim relief into the DA. So from January 1, government employees will get a DA of 125 percent, she said. Government employees in the state have been getting an interim relief of 10 percent of the Band Pay since July 2016 when Banerjee returned to power.

The 10 per cent interim relief is seven percent of DA. So the DA has been raised by 25 percent from next year, said Chief Secretary Malay Kumar De. Last year, the state government had announced a DA hike of 15 percent that came into effect from January this year.

The latest hike will cost the state government another Rs 5,000 crore every year.”The state government is going through a tight financial condition but despite that, because I had promised our state government employees, we have decided to release the additional 18 percent DA,” said Banerjee.

Central retirement age hike from 60 to 62 ?

There is widespread rumours that central Govt. is going to announce retirement age hike from 60 to 62. A section of media and websites has gone so far that they have declared the possible date of announcement by Govt. as 15th August.
But  top sources say there is no such move.

"There is no such plan to raise the retirement age to 62 from 60 years," a reliable source in the government said.

Recent media reports had claimed that the Ministry of Personnel was working on a proposal to increase the age of service by two years as part of government's plan to defer payouts in the form of pensions and other payments to check fiscal deficit.

It was also speculated that the move may be timed ahead of Lok Sabha elections.

More Bank strike in July, August

UFBU held meeting in Chennai to discuss next course of action in response to IBA's merge offer in the bipartite settlement.
They decided further programmes including more strikes in the month of July and August.
Congratulating the bankers for the huge success in the last two days' strike, UFBU decided to meet high ups in the central Govt. for an amicable solution before moving further with their agitation.

If there is no positive response from centre, further strike dates will be announced - UFBU General Secretary told newsmen.

West Bengal enhances ad hoc bonus, issues order for festival advance

Ad Hoc Bonus of Rs 3800/-
The undersigned is directed by order of the Governor to say that the Governor is pleased to decide that the State Government employees who are not covered by any of the productivity linked Bonus Scheme and whose revised emoluments did not exceed Rs.28,000/ - per month as on 31st March, 2018 will be entitled to ad-hoc bonus for the accounting year 2017-2018 at the rate of Rs. 3.800/- (Rupees three thousand eight hundred) only per head. The upper eligibility ceiling of Rs.28,000 /- p.m as on 31st March, 2018 will be applicable irrespective of whether the emoluments are drawn in the pre-revised or revised scale .......

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Payment of BonuslEx-gratia grant to the Employees of Public Undertakings for the year 2017-18.
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Interest free festival advance
The undersigned is directed by order of the Governor to say that the Governor has been pleased to accord sanction of interest-free festival advance upto a maximum of Rs.6,000/- (Rupees six thousand) only to State Government employees whose revised emoluments on 31st March, 2018 exceeded Rs.28,000/- per month but did not exceed Rs.36,000/-per month, if applied for the same....
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