New Delhi. Lakhs are good news for central employees. Millions of employees and pensioners will soon get dearness allowance. The minister has said in Parliament that from 1 July 2021, the entire dearness allowance will be received and the remaining dearness allowance for the last three times will also be given.
Minister of State for Finance Anurag Thakur told the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday that the arrears of the three installment of dearness allowance of central employees and pensioners will be given from July 2021. Due to the Corona crisis, the government had stopped dearness allowances of 1 January 2020, 1 July 2020 and 1 January 2021 of central employees.
50 central employees and 65 pensioners will benefit
The Minister of State for Finance said that about 50 lakh central employees and 65 lakh pensioners will benefit. In a written reply in the Rajya Sabha, Anurag Thakur said that whenever it is decided to give installment of dearness allowance for July 1, 2021 in future, the remaining three installments will also be restored.
17 percent dearness allowance
Explain that central employees get dearness allowance up to 17 percent of their basic salary. It is set from July 2019 and was to be amended in January 2020. But due to corona infection, the modification could not be done. Last year, the Union Cabinet approved increasing the DA by 4 percent to 21 percent, but it has not been implemented yet.
