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.
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