BHUBANESWAR: Ahead of the Lok Sabha and meeting elections within the state, the Naveen Patnaik govt on Monday introduced a hike of 3% within the dearness allowance (DA) of workers and dearness aid of pensioners. The latest hike has taken the DA of state govt workers and pensioners to 12%, bringing it on a par with central govt workers.
An legit statement issued by means of the manager minister’s administrative center mentioned as many as seven lakh workers and pensioners gets the benefit of the hike, which might be carried out retrospectively from January 1, 2019.
The state govt’s resolution to hike the DA comes shut at the heels of the central govt expanding the similar for its workers and pensioners by means of three% on February 19.
S P Rath, joint secretary finance, mentioned, “The DA for workers has been made up our minds at the basis of client value index. There is a formulation to calculate the DA. It is introduced two times a year to be carried out from January and July, respectively. Generally all states apply the Centre in saying the DA hike.”
The hike will put an extra burden of more than Rs 500 crore at the state exchequer, legit resources mentioned. The state govt had final larger the DA by means of 2% on October 15 final year. “The hike in DA is like a pre-election bonanza for the workers and pensioners. Whatever may be the goal of the government, it's going to receive advantages the folks involved,” Gangadhar Udgata, a pensioner, mentioned.
In a bid to woo electorate, chief minister Naveen Patnaik had introduced a hike of Rs 200 within the social safety pension below Madhu Babu Pension Yojana (MBPY) final month, which would get advantages more than 48 lakh elderly, bodily challenged, widow and destitute women. After the hike, elderly individuals above 60 years gets a revised old-age pension of Rs 500 monthly and the ones above 80 years of age gets a pension of Rs 700 monthly. The enhanced pension came into effect from February 15.
An legit statement issued by means of the manager minister’s administrative center mentioned as many as seven lakh workers and pensioners gets the benefit of the hike, which might be carried out retrospectively from January 1, 2019.
The state govt’s resolution to hike the DA comes shut at the heels of the central govt expanding the similar for its workers and pensioners by means of three% on February 19.
S P Rath, joint secretary finance, mentioned, “The DA for workers has been made up our minds at the basis of client value index. There is a formulation to calculate the DA. It is introduced two times a year to be carried out from January and July, respectively. Generally all states apply the Centre in saying the DA hike.”
The hike will put an extra burden of more than Rs 500 crore at the state exchequer, legit resources mentioned. The state govt had final larger the DA by means of 2% on October 15 final year. “The hike in DA is like a pre-election bonanza for the workers and pensioners. Whatever may be the goal of the government, it's going to receive advantages the folks involved,” Gangadhar Udgata, a pensioner, mentioned.
In a bid to woo electorate, chief minister Naveen Patnaik had introduced a hike of Rs 200 within the social safety pension below Madhu Babu Pension Yojana (MBPY) final month, which would get advantages more than 48 lakh elderly, bodily challenged, widow and destitute women. After the hike, elderly individuals above 60 years gets a revised old-age pension of Rs 500 monthly and the ones above 80 years of age gets a pension of Rs 700 monthly. The enhanced pension came into effect from February 15.
Odisha increases DA for govt employees by 3%
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