A month after increasing the dearness allowance of central government employees to 28 percent, the Narendra Modi-led government has come up with another good news for the CG employees in Pay Commission scale.
The Department of Expenditure under the Ministry of Finance has recently issued a memorandum highlighting the revised and enhanced rates of Dearness Allowance (DA) for the Central Government employees and Central Autonomous bodies.
The notification has been issued for employees of Central Government and Central Autonomous Bodies who have been continuing to draw their pay in the pre-revised pay scale as per 5th and 6th Central Pay Commission (CPC).
The DA instalment of these employees due from January 2020, July 2020 and January 2021 were frozen. The department informed that the rate of DA for those employees receiving pay under 5th Pay Commission shall be enhanced to 356% of basic pay from the existing 312%.
This will come into effect from July 1, 2021. Similarly, the Finance Ministry also revised the rates of Dearness Allowance for the employees of Central Government and Central Autonomous Bodies who are continuing to draw their pay in the pre-revised pay scale as per 6th Central Pay Commission.
The rate of DA admissible to these categories of employees shall be enhanced to 189% of the Basic Pay from the existing 164% with effect from July 1, 2021.
The department clarified that the rate of Dearness Allowance for all employees under these two categories for the period from January 1, 2020 till June 30, 2021 will remain the same.