7th pay commission: The benefit of increasing DA was getting 14 percent but now DA has increased by 17 percent to 31 percent.
After giving the benefit of 7th pay commission 31% dearness allowance to central employees, now the Modi government has announced to give 31 percent dearness allowance (DA) to 2.5 lakh Gramin Dak Sevaks (GDS) working in the post office. Is. Now employees will get increased DA every month in their salary.
Earlier, the Central Government had increased the DA of the employees working for the Center by 14 percent but they increased it even more. The Central Government has ordered to implement the increased DA immediately. According to Tarun Mittal, ADG of the Department of Posts, from July 1, 2021, Gramin Dak Sevaks were getting the benefit of a 14 percent increase in DA, but now the DA has increased by 17 percent to 31 percent.
Let us tell you that the salary of GDS starts from 10 thousand rupees to 14500 rupees per month and it is based on the working hours of the employees. According to HS Tiwari, former president of AG Office Brotherhood, there is a situation of demand for GDS in postal services. In post offices, they are appointed on the post of postman. Presently the postal department has 1.71 lakh employees, while the number of GDS is close to 2.5 lakh.
He further said that the dearness allowance of GDS was not increased during the Corona epidemic but now many employees have got relief from this decision. Just because the central government has increased the DA of all central employees, the increase has been implemented in the post office as well. Earlier DA of post office employees was increased from 17 per cent to 28 per cent and now an increase of 3 per cent has been achieved.
GDS gets their salary on the basis of working hours, like “When a GDS works for 4 hours, he gets 10 thousand rupees initially. If 5 hours work then this amount becomes minimum Rs 12000. After that the employees get increment with experience in salary.
