Govt Announces 11% DA Hike For State Govt Employees | Details Here
The State Government on Tuesday announced a hike in dearness allowance (DA) for its employees. With this, the new DA rate will be 28 per cent, up from 17 per cent. The increase in DA will be applicable from July 1. This decision is in line with the decision taken by the Central Government this month. The proposal related to this was given nod to in Tuesday’s Cabinet meeting.
With the increase of DA by 11 per cent more than 3.5 lakh Government employees will be benefitted, at the same time the State Government will bear an expense of `1,000 crore on the exchequer.
In view of the Corona epidemic, the Central Government had banned Dearness Allowance from January-2020. Recently, the Central Government had decided to remove the ban on dearness allowance increasing the DA from 17 per cent to 28 per cent.
Cabinet Secretary, Vandana Dadel said, “The State Government has decided to increase the DA of State government employees by 11 per cent. The DA will be hiked from existing 17 per cent to 28 per cent.”
The hike in DA is seen as a double bonanza for State Government employees as last month, the State Cabinet raised the government’s contribution to the National Pension Scheme to 14 per cent of basic salary from the current 10 per cent.
On Tuesday, approvals to 19 agenda were given at the Cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Hemant Soren.
The Cabinet also gave its nod for distribution of books to students studying at class IX and X at free of cost. Ex post facto approval for extension of tenure of Jharkhand State Law Commission from November 14, 2019 to November 13, 2021, was also given nod to at Tuesday’s meeting.
Ex-post facto approval of `5,51,00,000 for operation of Madhupur bypoll from State contingency fund was also approved in Cabinet meeting. Approval for increasing the training fees in State Government industrial training institutes was also given nod. Srinath University Bill, 2021 was given approval. Jharkhand Motor Cart (Amendment) Manual was approved in the format of 2021.
Approval for increasing the number of villages under Deendayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana under the decentralised distributed production programme (Off Grid) from 230 villages to 246 villages was given nod to. The total cost of the scheme is `109 crore out of which the centre share will be `65.40 crore, while loan from REC will be `32.70 crore while state share will be `10.90 crore.
Administrative approval for construction of Barlanga Nemra Pirgul Kasmar road under State highway was also given approval at meeting.
The two lane road will be 27.608-km long and will be constructed at the cost of `176.70 crore.
(Inputs from Agency)
