The State Government on Monday announced an additional 2-per cent hike in the dearness allowance (DA) of the employees of the State public sector undertakings (PSUs).
According to an official communiqué received from the Chief Minister’s Office, CM Naveen Patnaik approved the increase in the DA for the PSU staffs.
The State PSU employees who are getting revised salary from 2017 are eligible to get the DA benefits. With this announcement, the DA increases from 7 per cent to 9 per cent. The employees would get the benefits with retrospective effect from July 1, 2018.
Notably, the Government had earlier in March this year announced that it would implement recommendations of the 7th Pay Commission with effect from January 1, 2016.