da arrears

Kolkata, March 28 The West Bengal government will pay the outstanding Dearness Allowance (DA) arrears to serving employees, pensioners, and family pensioners in a single installment instead of the two installments announced earlier, an official said on Saturday.This decision follows a Supreme...

Kolkata, March 27 The West Bengal government decided on Friday to keep the accounts branch of the home and hill affairs department open over the weekend to expedite the processing of Dearness Allowance (DA) arrears following a recent Supreme Court judgment, according to an official memorandum...

New Delhi, March 15 – CEC Gyanesh Kumar said on Sunday that both the central and state governments are free to make policy decisions based on their own judgment before the Model Code of Conduct comes into effect.He made this statement in response to a question about the West Bengal government...

New Delhi, March 15 Elections to the assemblies in Assam, Kerala, and Puducherry will be held on a single day, April 9, in Tamil Nadu on April 23, and in two phases in West Bengal on April 23 and 29, while votes will be counted for all polls on May 4, the Election Commission announced on Sunday...

Kolkata, March 15 – West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee announced on Sunday that the state government would pay arrears in Dearness Allowance (DA) to its employees from 2008, as directed by the Supreme Court.The announcement was made through a statement posted by the Chief Minister on...

Kolkata, March 15 West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee announced on Sunday that her government will clear the DA arrears of its employees and pensioners, including teachers, non-teaching staff, and workers of grant-in-aid institutions, starting from March this year.The announcement came...

Kolkata, March 13 Government offices across West Bengal largely functioned normally on Friday despite a “strike” called by a forum of employees and teachers demanding payment of pending Dearness Allowance (DA).The agitation, called by the Sangrami Joutha Mancha, evoked a limited response in...

Kolkata, March 13 – The “work stoppage” protest called by various associations representing West Bengal government employees, which was consolidated under the collective organization of Sangrami Joutho Mancha (Joint Movement Forum) on Friday to express their discontent regarding the alleged...

Kolkata, March 13 – CPI(M) leaders on Friday criticized the West Bengal government over its failure to implement the Supreme Court order, which mandated the payment of 25% of the Dearness Allowance (DA) arrears from 2008 to 2019 by March 31.CPI(M) leader and advocate Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharya...

Kolkata, March 13 A commotion broke out outside Khadya Bhavan, the headquarters of the West Bengal Food and Civil Supplies Department, on Friday as a section of state government employees tried to prevent colleagues from entering the office during a ‘work stoppage’ agitation over pending...

Kolkata, March 13 – Various associations representing West Bengal government employees, under the collective organization of Sangrami Joutho Mancha (Joint Movement Forum), have initiated a complete work stoppage on Friday to express their discontent regarding the purported hesitation and...

Kolkata, March 12 The West Bengal government on Thursday warned of salary deductions for employees who are absent on March 13, when a section of state government staff called a strike to protest non-payment of a portion of pending Dearness Allowance (DA), an official said.The administration...

Kolkata, March 4 – The Sangrami Youth Forum (Joint Movement Forum), an umbrella body of various West Bengal Government employees' associations, had called for a complete work stoppage on March 13 to protest against the state government's inaction regarding the Dearness Allowance (DA) payable to...

Kolkata, February 19 – The Bharatiya Janata Party criticised Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday over her government’s decision to create additional positions in the State Constituted Services.In a post on X, Amit Malviya, the BJP’s IT Cell chief and the party’s central observer for...

Kolkata, February 14 – An association of state government employees in West Bengal has sent contempt of court notices to the Chief Secretary, Nandini Goswami, and the State Finance Secretary, Prabhat Kumar Mishra, for failing to comply with the Supreme Court's order issued earlier this month...