Sunday 10 April 2016
Thursday 7 April 2016
Dearness Allowance from Jan 2016 - 6% hike Order issued by Finmin
Payment of Dearness Allowance to Central Government employees - Revised Rates effective from 1.1.2016.
No. 111/2016-E-ll (B)
Government of India
Ministry of Finance
Department of Expenditure
North Block, New Delhi
Dated the 7th 'April, 2016.
OFFICE MEMORANDUM
Subject: Payment of Dearness Allowance to Central Government employees - Revised Rates effective from 1.1.2016.
The undersigned is directed to
refer to this Ministry‘s Office Memorandum No. 1/3/2015-E-ll (B) dated
23rd September, 2015 on the subject mentioned above and to say that the
President is pleased to decide that the Dearness Allowance payable to
Central Government employees shall be enhanced from the existing rate of
119% to 125% with effect from 1st January, 2016.
2. The provisions containedin
paras 3, 4 and 5 of this Ministry’s OM. No. 1-(3)/2008-E-II(B) dated
29th August, 2008 shall continue to be applicable while regulating
Dearness Allowance under these orders.
3. The additional installment of
Dearness Allowance payable under these orders shall be paid in cash to
all Central-Government employees.
4. These orders shall also apply
to the civilian employees paid from the Defence Services Estimates and
the expenditure will be chargeable to the relevant head of the Defence
Services Estimates. in regard to Armed Forces personnel and Railway
employees, separate orders will be issued by the Ministry of Defence and
Ministry of Railways, respectively.
5. ln so far as the employees
working in the Indian Audit and Accounts Department are concerned, these
orders are issued with the concurrence of the Comptroller and Auditor
General of India.
(Nirmala Dev)
Deputy Secretary to the Government of India
Sunday 3 April 2016
Cabinet Likely To Approve 7th Pay Commission Award With Increment
New Delhi: The cabinet is likely to approve the 7th pay commission award
for central government employees in June for which the public exchequer
will have to spend an additional amount of Rs 1.02 lakh crore.
However, there are no dearness allowance in their salary structure as
the government recently announced 125 percent Dearness Allowance (DA) on
which the pay panel recommended the 7th pay commission award.
Introducing a new provision of perks with the pay packet, the central
government is also likely to give a increment, which is to be due in
July, the month of implementation of pay commission recommendations for
the central government employees, sources said.
The pay panel recommended minimum pay to Rs 18,000 per month from Rs
7,000, while the maximum pay has been recommended Rs 2.5 lakh per month
from current Rs 90,000. It’s made a width pay gap discrimination between
employees and higher officers from existing 1:12 to 1: 13.8.
The Empowered Committee of Secretaries is likely to propose minimum pay
Rs 20,ooo but central government employees unions demanded minimum pay
Rs 26,000.
Under the pay scale the officers and employees will be entitled to House
Rent Allowance (HRA) at the rate of 24 percent, 16 percent and 8 per
cent of their new basic pays but it will be paid from the date of the
Seventh pay commission award implementation. So no arrears will be paid
in this segment.
The Commission also recommends that the rate of HRA will be revised to
27 percent, 18 percent and 9 percent respectively when DA crosses 50
percent, and further revised to 30 percent, 20 percent and 10 percent
when DA crosses 100 percent.
So the HRA segment will rise dramatically more than 100 percent of the existing House Rent Allowance (HRA).
The pay as per the pay panel report was set at Rs 2.25 lakh for
secretary-level officers. Accordingly, the House Rent Allowance (HRA)
for secretaries would be more than Rs 56,000.
The report of the Seventh Pay Commission was presented to Finance
Minister Arun Jaitley in November with a recommendation for 14.27 per
cent increase in basic pay. The overall increase in salary, allowances
and pensions is 23.55%. The increase in allowances will be higher by 63%
while pensions will rise 24%.
The government set up a 13-member Empowered Committee of Secretaries
(CoS) headed by Cabinet Secretary P K Sinha for processing the report of
the Seventh Pay Commission before cabinet nod.
An Implementation Cell has been created in the Finance Ministry which
works as the Secretariat of the Empowered Committee. All central
government employees unions’ submitted their written demands in respect
of seventh pay commission’s anomalies in the cell to review, which are
under process.
The central government has also been provisioned Rs 70,000 crore in the
Union Budget 2016-17 to meet the demand for the new pay commission award
that will be made effective from January 2016.
Friday 1 April 2016
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