Govt employees get hike in salary..!? Diwali gift..!?
As inflation is high, the expectation of increasing DA of employees is high. Generally, the dearness allowance of central employees is revised on 1st january and 1st July every year. There has been no official comment or announcement from the central government regarding the expected hike in subsidized prices before Diwali. This assessment is expressed by considering the demands of the employees in various reports.However, if the government takes a decision in favor of employees based on the rate of inflation, around one crore employees and pensioners of the country will benefit from it. These include 47.58 lakh central employees and 69.76 lakh pensioners. Now employees are expected to get 3 per cent DA hike award and may increase to 45 per cent on depreciation.
So if we calculate the increase in salary according to this, if an employee's basic pay is Rs 18,000 and he currently gets 42 percent discount, it becomes Rs 7,560. If it is increased to 45 percent, the amount will rise to Rs.8,100. This means that the salary of the employees will directly increase by Rs.540. Now if the employee's maximum basic pay is Rs 56,900, the DA on it as of now is Rs 23,898, whereas after the three per cent hike, it will become Rs 25,605.