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7th Pay Commission Latest: The Tamil Nadu government has announced a 3% increase in Dearness Allowance (DA) for government employees and teachers. This increase will be effective from July 1. The announcement by the Tamil Nadu government is expected to benefit 16 lakh government employees, teachers, pensioners and family pensioners. After this increase, the Tamil Nadu government will have to bear an additional annual expenditure of ₹1931 crore. Let us tell you that the Central Government has also increased the DA of its employees by 3%.
The central government has also announced
Earlier, the central government had increased dearness allowance by 3 percent. This will be effective from July 1, 2024. This will benefit more than one crore employees and pensioners before Diwali. Earlier in March, the government had increased DA/DR by four percent to 50 percent from January 1, 2024. The latest increase will put an additional burden of Rs 9,448 crore on the government exchequer. Let us tell you that there are about 49.18 lakh central government employees and 64.89 lakh pensioners.
Many states have also increased it
Different states of the country have also increased dearness allowance. Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Vishnu Dev Sai announced a 4% increase in dearness allowance of state government employees. With this, dearness allowance in the state will now be 50% of the basic salary. Employees will get the benefit of dearness allowance from October 1. The state government employees had been demanding DA at par with the Center for a long time, which has been approved by Chief Minister Sai.
Sikkim government has also increased the dearness allowance of its employees by four percent. Himachal Pradesh government has also increased the allowances of its employees. Apart from this, states like Jharkhand and Odisha have also increased the allowances.