7th PAY COMMISSION NEWS - CENTRAL GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES NEWS

No. 1(2)/2013-E.II(B) Government of India Ministry of Finance Department of Expenditure North Block, New Delhi Dated: 25th April, 2013. OFFICE MEMORANDUM Subject: Payment of Dearness Allowance to Central Government employees - Revised Rates effective from 1.1.2013. The undersigned is directed to refer to this Ministry’s Office Memorandum No.1(8)/2012-E-II (B) dated 28th September, 2012 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 72% to 80%with effect from 1st January, 2013. 2. The provisions contained in paras 3, 4 and 5 of this Ministry’s O.M. No.1(3)/2008-E-ll(8) 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 sha...

PIB News on Dearness Allowance : Release of additional instalment of DA to CG Employees and DR to CG Pensioners, due from 1.1.2013. Press Information Bureau Government of India Ministry of Finance 18-April-2013 20:45 IST Release of additional instalment of Dearness Allowance to central government employees and Dearness Relief to pensioners, due from 1.1.2013 The Union Cabinet today gave its approval to release an additional instalment of Dearness Allowance (DA) to central government employees and Dearness Relief (DR) to pensioners with effect from 01.01.2013 at the rate of 8 percent over the existing rate of 72 percent. Thus, the combined impact on the exchequer on account of both DA and DR would be of the order of Rs.8629.20 crore per annum and Rs. 10067.36 crore in the financial year 2013-14 (that is for a period of 14 months from January, 2013 to February, 2014).

DA to CG Staff and Pensioners from 1.1.2013, will be decided only after the Finance Minister arrival..? The decision on Dearness Allowance from January 2013, will be declared only after the Finance Minister’s arrival..?! The decision on Dearness Allowance will be declared only after the Finance Minister’s arrival..?! It is really surprising that, even after the month prescribed by 6CPC to announce the Dearness Allowance passed, the central government yet to decide the rate of dearness allowance to be paid to central government employees from January 2013. Almost all the central government employees news websites have written more than enough about the rate and timing of announcing the Dearness allowance payable to central government employees with effect from 1st January 2013. On 2nd April 2013, Some Established News websites informed that the 8% dearness allowance likely to be approved by cabinet committee today ie on April 02, 2013. But at the end of the cabinet meeting it had b...

Possibility of Announcement of DA from January, 2013 Will DA announced today?  -  In last post we have discussed about reasons for delay in DA announcement. This post is checking the possibility of early announcement of DA:- All are waiting for announcement of DA, which should be announced by Govt in last week of March,2013.  Till date no any reason or logic for delay in announcement has been constituted by any authority.  Today is Thursday and the question is raised that whether Cabinet meeting will hold or not; but no any information available in this regard.  As usual decision of enhancement in dearness allowance has been taken in meeting of Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs.  The composition of this committee is given below: Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs – Composition Prime Minister. Shri A.K. Antony, Minister of Defence. Shri Sharad Pawar, Minister of Agriculture and Minister of Food Processing Industries. Shri P. Chidambaram, Minister...

DA from Jan 2013 : AIRF writes to Finance Minister to release immediately... AIRF General Secretary  Shri.Shiva Gopal Sharma writes a letter to Finance Minister to declare the additional DA from Jan 2013 immediately to avoid any confrontation of Railway employees... The letter has been reproduced and given below for your information... ALL INDIA RAILWAYMEN'S FEDERATION No.AIRF/13 Dated: April 9, 2013 Shri P.Chidambaram, Hon’ble Finance Minister, Ministry of Finance. (Government of India) North Block, New Delhi. Dear Sir, Sub: Payment of Dearness Allowance to Central Government Employees and Pensioners It is very unfortunate that the announcement for the payment of Dearness Allowance is being delayed badly and is creating lots of frustration among the Central Government Employees as well as Pensioners. Particularly Railway Employees, who are the prime mover of the wheel of the development and growth of the nation, they also feel frustrated because of inordinate delay in th...