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Employees DA Hike 2024: There is good news for the government employees of Himachal Pradesh and West Bengal. As per the announcement made in the budget by the Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu government of Himachal Pradesh, the government employees of the state will get the benefit of increased dearness allowance from April 1, 2024. The benefit of increased 4 percent DA will be given. April salary. Notification in this regard has already been issued. The benefit of DA increased by the Mamata government of West Bengal will be available from May 1, 2024, that is, the salary in the account will increase from June.
DA of Himachal Pradesh employees increased by 4 percent
In fact, before the implementation of the code of conduct for the Lok Sabha elections, the Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu government of Himachal Pradesh had announced a 4 percent increase in its budget to be presented in February. After this, in March the state government had issued a notification regarding DA.
Under this, more than 2 lakh employees and officers of the state, judicial service officers and teachers, who are paid under the pay scale of the University Grants Commission, will now get the benefit of 38% DA. This announcement will benefit 2.66 lakh employees across the state.
Employees will be given increased dearness allowance at the rate of 4% from April 1, 2024. The benefit of this increased DA will be available in the April salary received in May. It is payable for pensioners and family pensioners from July 1, 2022. It will be given from April 1, 2024. Now two installments of dearness allowance are left for employees and pensioners. This includes the installments of January, 2023 and July, 2023.
Due to implementation of the code of conduct for Lok Sabha elections, Himachal government has demanded advance loan from the central government. A request has been sent by the State Government to the Government of India, in which it has been said that the loan approval which is usually given in May 2024, should be given in the month of April only. This will create a difference in the election code of conduct regarding salary, pension and loan. -Committed expenses like payments are to be met by the state government. If advance loan is not approved then it will be difficult to meet these expenses.
West Bengal government employees will get the benefit of increased DA from May
In February, the Mamata Banerjee government presented a budget of Rs 3,66,166 crore for the financial year 2024-25 in the West Bengal Assembly. During this, Minister of State for Finance Chandrima Bhattacharya had announced that the state government has decided to increase additional 4% DA for the employees, it will be applicable from May, which is in addition to the 4% DA announced in January i.e. now it will be 14% from May. Will be done. You will get the benefit of DA, in such a situation the salary in your account will increase from June.
Its benefit will be available to all 14 lakh employees of the state government, teaching and non-teaching staff of all schools, colleges and universities, employees and pensioners of all government undertakings. Earlier, dearness allowance was increased by 4 percent from January 1, 2024, the benefits of which have started being available from February.