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New Delhi: The Central Government has today decided to increase the Dearness Allowance (DA) of its employees and pensioners by 3 percent. This decision of the government will benefit more than 1 crore employees and pensioners before Diwali. The 3 percent increase in DA will be effective from July 1. With this, DA of central employees and pensioners has increased to 53 percent.
After the cabinet meeting, Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnav said that the Union Cabinet has decided to increase the dearness relief (DR) of central government employees and pensioners in the basic salary and pension by 3% DA.
Increasing DA by 3 percent will put a burden of Rs 9448 crore on the government exchequer. It is noteworthy that earlier in March, the Central Government had increased DA by four percent to 50 percent. The four percent increase in DA was implemented from July 1.
Pradhan said that the DA of employees is increased on the basis of 12-month average of All India Consumer Price Index-Industrial Works.
49.18 lakh central government employees and 64.89 lakh pensioners will benefit from the 3 percent increase in DA.
Under another important decision taken in the Union Cabinet meeting, the support price of wheat for the marketing season 2025-26 will be Rs 100. It has been increased from Rs 150 to Rs 2425.
Apart from this, the Union Cabinet has decided to allocate Rs 35,000 crore for PM Annadata Eye Protection Campaign. In another decision, Rs 2,642 crore has been allocated for the Varanasi-Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyay (DDU) multi-tracking project.