dearness allowance

Bhopal, April 2 – The Madhya Pradesh Finance Department issued orders on Thursday to government employees, stating that the Dearness Allowance (DA) in the state has been increased by three percent.As a result of this increase, employees will now receive a total DA of 58 percent, up from the...

Shimla, March 30 Hundreds of pensioners staged a protest at Chaura Maidan near the Vidhan Sabha, demanding their long-delayed payments.The protesters were gathered under the banner of the Himachal Pradesh Pensioners Joint Executive Committee.According to the demonstrators, pensioners who...

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...

Bhopal, March 23 – The Madhya Pradesh government has approved a 3 per cent increase in Dearness Allowance (DA) for state employees and pensioners, raising the total rate to 58 per cent, effective from July 1, 2025. The decision, taken by the Council of Ministers, aligns the state’s DA with the...

Bhopal, March 23 The Madhya Pradesh cabinet on Monday approved a 3 per cent increase in Dearness Allowance (DA) for government employees and pensioners, and also cleared development and construction projects worth Rs 6,940 crore, officials said.The DA increase will benefit approximately 10...

New Delhi, March 20 In response to a long-standing demand from over two lakh train operations staff, the Railway Board announced on Friday a 25 per cent increase in kilometerage allowance for loco running staff, effective from January 1, 2024.This announcement comes after over two years of...

Gangtok, March 19 The Sikkim government has announced a 5 per cent increase in the Dearness Allowance (DA) and Dearness Relief (DR) for its employees and pensioners, respectively, according to an official notification.The increase will be effective from July 1, 2025, retrospectively...

Agartala, March 16 Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha announced on Monday a 5 per cent increase in dearness allowance for state government employees, bringing the total DA to 41 per cent.Shortly after Finance Minister Pranajit Singha Roy concluded his budget speech, Saha announced that the...

Chandigarh, March 16 Punjab BJP President Sunil Jakhar criticised the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government in the state on Monday, saying that its main achievements in the past four years have been the mounting debt burden and the expansion of gangsterism and drug use.Jakhar made these remarks...

Agartala, March 16 – The Tripura government announced on Monday a 5 per cent increase in Dearness Allowance (DA) and Dearness Relief (DR) for 1,83,582 government employees and pensioners in the state.Making the announcement on the second day of the ongoing Budget session of the Tripura...

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 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 Leader of the Opposition in the West Bengal assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, said on Friday that he raised the issue of the "disrespect" shown to President Droupadi Murmu by the state government during his first meeting with the new Governor R N Ravi.Adhikari also praised the...

Chandigarh, March 11 The Punjab government will consider the possibility of imposing an entry tax on vehicles registered in Himachal Pradesh, Finance Minister Harpal Singh Cheema informed the state assembly on Wednesday.Cheema also criticized the Congress-led Himachal Pradesh government for...

Kochi, March 10 The Kerala High Court on Tuesday dismissed a plea seeking to restrain messages sent by the Chief Minister's Office (CMO) to officials regarding grants of Dearness Allowance (DA) and house building allowance (HBA), saying that such communications cannot be regarded as a political...

Kolkata, March 10 Hundreds of teachers and aspiring teachers held separate rallies near the headquarters of the state's Education Department in Salt Lake, near Kolkata, on Tuesday, demanding recruitment and pay-related issues.In one protest, around 300 aspiring teachers under the banner of the...

New Delhi, March 7 Pensioners under the Employees' Pension Scheme 1995 (EPS-95), run by the retirement fund body EPFO, will begin a 3-day protest at Jantar Mantar on March 9 to demand a minimum monthly pension increase from the existing Rs 1,000 to Rs 7,500.As many as 8.1 million pensioners...

Mandi/Shimla (HP), March 6 Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu said on Friday that Himachal Pradesh could have been debt-free if the previous BJP government had maintained financial discipline.Addressing a public gathering at Diyargi in the Nachan Assembly constituency of Mandi district, the...

Chandigarh, March 5 – The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) on Thursday demanded that Punjab Finance Minister Harpal Singh Cheema allocate funds to fulfill promises made to women, farmers, government employees, and the common people, or face the "gherao" (surrounding) of its legislators when they visit...