Recently, in the 63rd meeting of the Standing Committee of the National Council, many important issues related to central employees were discussed, which also included the payment of 18 months of DA / DR arrears withheld during Covid. Let us know what was discussed on this issue.
Amidst the discussion of the next dearness allowance hike and the implementation of the 8th Pay Commission, now the demand for 18 months’ DA arrears of central employees and pensioners, which were withheld during the Corona epidemic, has started rising. Employee organizations say that the central government should pay the pending arrears soon as it is the right of employees and pensioners.
Actually, the Central Government increases DA every year in January/July. In the same sequence, DA was also increased in 2020-21, but due to the Covid pandemic, the DA arrears were stopped from July 2020 to January 2021, the demand for which is being raised continuously. Employee organizations have sent letters and memorandums to the government several times in this regard, the same government has refused to give DA arrears several times in Parliament. Now once again the employees have raised the demand for arrears, now it remains to be seen what stand the Central Government takes on this. DA is pending from July 2020 to January 2021
In fact, recently in the 63rd meeting of the Standing Committee of the National Council (Joint Consultative Mechanism) in Delhi, the demand for DA arrears of 18 months (July 2020 to January 2021) of central employees and pensioners, which was stopped during the Corona epidemic, has been raised. In this meeting, under the chairmanship of the secretary, many other important issues were also discussed, in which senior leaders like Shivgopal Mishra and M. Raghavaiya participated from the employees union.
He argued that both employees and pensioners are entitled to this relief. Their demand is that the central government should pay the pending arrears soon as it is the right of employees and pensioners, but the government has not accepted this demand till now. Many pending demands from the central government should be resolved as soon as possible.
If the payment had been made, would we have got up to Rs 2.20 lakh for DA arrears?
- Shivgopal Mishra of National Council of JCM says that the DA arrears of level-1 employees range from Rs 11,880 to Rs 37,554.
- If the calculation is done for level-13 (7TH CPC basic pay scale Rs 1,23,100 to Rs 2,15,900) or level-14 (pay scale), then an employee is to be paid dearness allowance arrears of Rs 1,44,200 to Rs 2,18,200.
- If the basic salary of the employee is Rs 18,000, he can get DA arrears of 3 months (4,320+3,240+4,320) = Rs 11,880. If the basic salary of the employee is Rs 56,000, he is to be paid DA arrears of 3 months (13,656 + 10,242 + 13,656) = Rs 37,554.
- Level-13 (7TH CPC Basic Pay Scale Rs 1,23,100 to Rs 2,15,900).
- For Level-14 (Pay Scale), DA arrears of Rs 1,44,200 to Rs 2,18,200 are to be paid.
(These figures are shown as an example, there may be changes in it.)
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