Tag: Dearness allowance

Uttrakhand CM approves hike in DA of govt employees, pensioners

The cabinet had authorized CM Pushkar Singh Dhami to take a decision on increasing the DA of the personnel.

May 23, 2023

UP govt hikes DA by 4% for state employees & pensioners

The Uttar Pradesh government has hiked dearness allowance (DA) for its employees and dearness relief to its pensioners by four per cent from January 1, 2023.

May 17, 2023

Bengal DA crisis: Employees to go on mass leave on March 30

As a measure on the issue of pending dearness allowance arrears, government employees in West Bengal will go on a mass leave on March 30.

March 22, 2023

“Behead me, but…”: Mamata Banerjee on protests over dearness allowance

Chief Minister said the protesting Opposition that they can behead her but she can't do anything to increase the dearness allowance.

March 7, 2023

Delhi Govt’s Diwali gift for labourers: Minimum wages hiked from Oct 1

The Deputy Chief Minister said that people employed on minimum wages in the unorganised sector should also get the benefits of the dearness allowances.

October 12, 2022

AIADMK rule made base of Dravidian model of development: Edappadi K. Palaniswami

AIADMK interim general secretary and former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu Edappadi K. Palaniswami on Tuesday said that the base for the Dravidian model of development was the AIADMK rule for 32 years in the state.

September 29, 2022

Congress leaders including Manmohan Singh, Rahul Gandhi slam govt over dearness allowance freeze

The Congress' consultative group meeting was held on a zoom conference call and its video was released by the party on Saturday.

April 25, 2020

Dearness Allowance hike for govt employees frozen till July 2021, says Centre amid COVID-19 crisis

In an office memorandum, department of expenditure, ministry of finance said that additional instalment of DA and DR falling due from July 1, 2020 and January 1, 2021 will also not be paid.

April 23, 2020

Centre hikes dearness allowance by 4% to 21% for govt employees, pensioners

The hike of 4 per cent means that the monthly salary of central government employees’ will go up by Rs 720 to Rs 10,000 per month.

March 13, 2020

‘Diwali gift’: Centre hikes Dearness Allowance for employees by 5%, 50 lakh to benefit

The Centre has increased the dearness allowance from 12 per cent to 17 per cent, Union minister Prakash Javadekar said after a Cabinet meeting on Wednesday.

October 9, 2019

Dearness Allowance of central govt employees, pensioners raised by 2%

Central government employees and pensioners have a reason for cheer as the Modi government has approved an additional 2 per cent dearness allowance (DA) for all.

August 29, 2018

HP announces 4 pc DA to employees, pensioners

Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh announced Dearness Allowance (DA) of four per cent to state government employees and pensioners from January, 2017 to be incorporated in salary of September, 2017 and to be paid in October. In his address on the Independence Day celebrations at Rampur Bushehr, the CM said, “It was a hard-earned independence and...

August 16, 2017

Cong, CPI-M stage walkout from Bengal Assembly

The Congress and the CPI-M on Wednesday staged a walkout from the assembly after an adjournment motion on the state government’s inability to pay dearness allowance to its employees was rejected by the chair. The Congress first walked out after the motion, moved by it, was turned down by the speaker and the CPI-M followed...

December 14, 2016