Salary Hike: Yogi government of Uttar Pradesh has again given gifts to the state employees after Diwali. The state government has increased the Dearness Allowance (DA) of employees under the Fifth and Sixth Pay Commission. An order has been issued by the government on Thursday regarding increase in dearness allowance. Earlier, before Diwali, the government had announced a 3 percent increase in DA of employees covered under the Seventh Pay Commission.
Dearness allowance of employees increased by 12 percent
After the recent order of the government, the dearness allowance of the fifth pay scale employees has been increased by 12 percent. Apart from this, there will be an increase of 7 percent in the dearness allowance of the sixth pay scale employees. Employees will get this benefit from July 1, 2024. Additional Chief Secretary Deepak Kumar has issued a government order in this regard. According to the government order, the dearness allowance of state employees, aided educational institutions, technical educational institutions, permanent employees of urban bodies and UGC salary holders whose salaries have not been revised since 2006 and get salary as per the 5th pay scale, has been increased. .
Dearness allowance increased from 443 to 455%
According to this, under the Fifth Pay Commission, dearness allowance has been increased from 443 percent to 455 percent. Employees drawing salaries under the sixth pay scale, which has not been revised since 2016, will get 246 per cent DA instead of 239 per cent. Earlier, on the occasion of Diwali, Yogi government had announced to increase DA in the first week of October. At that time the government had increased the DA of employees covered under the Seventh Pay Commission from 50 percent to 53 percent. A similar increase was made in the Dearness Relief Allowance (DR) of pensioners.
Apart from this, Yogi government had announced to give bonus to the employees at that time. About 14.82 lakh employees of the state government were benefited by this. Giving bonus on Diwali had put a burden of Rs 1025 crore on the state government’s treasury. The government had given the benefits of increased DA and bonus to the employees in the October salary. Due to Diwali, October salary was also given to the employees on October 30.
