The Tamil Nadu government has announced a 3% increase in Dearness Allowance (DA) for government employees and teachers. This increase is effective from July 1st. The Tamil Nadu government’s announcement is expected to benefit 16 lakh government employees, teachers, pensioners and family pensioners. After this increase, the Tamil Nadu government will have to incur an additional annual expenditure of ₹1931 crore. Let us tell you that the Central Government has also increased the DA of its employees by only 3%.
The central government has also announced
Earlier, the central government had increased dearness allowance by 3%. It will be effective from July 1, 2024. This will benefit more than one crore employees and pensioners before Diwali. Earlier in March, the government had increased DA/DR by four percentage points to 50 percent from January 1, 2024. The latest increase will put an additional burden of Rs 9,448 crore on the government exchequer. Let us tell you that there are about 49.18 lakh central government employees and 64.89 lakh pensioners.
Many states have also increased
Different states of the country have also increased dearness allowance. Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Vishnu Dev Sai announced a 4% increase in dearness allowance of state government employees. With this, dearness allowance in the state will now be 50% of the basic salary. Employees will get the benefit of dearness allowance from October 1. Government employees of the state had been demanding for a long time to be given DA equal to that of the Centre, on which Chief Minister Sai has approved.
Sikkim government has also increased the dearness allowance of its employees by four percent. The government of Himachal Pradesh has also increased the allowances of the employees. Apart from this, states like Jharkhand and Odisha have also increased the allowance.
