The Uttar Pradesh government approved a proposal to give dearness allowance (DA) and dearness relief (DR) to 28 lakh state government employees and pensioners at an increased rate of 11 percent from July 1.
After the increase, the DA of the state government employees will be 28 per cent and about 16 lakh state employees and 12 lakh pensioners will be benefited.
Officials said in Lucknow on Tuesday that the arrears of increased DA of July, 2021 will go to the GPF account of the employees and the hiked DA for August, 2021 will be paid to the employees with the salary of September, 2021.
State employees and pensioners have been waiting for the DA hike for more than a year-and-a-half. At present, DA is being paid to the employees at the rate of 17 per cent and with the increase they will be getting 28 per cent DA.
Recently, during the monsoon session of the assembly, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath had announced the payment of dearness allowance and dearness relief to the state employees and pensioners. On Tuesday, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath approved the proposal of the Finance department on the hike of dearness allowance for both state employees and pensioners.
In view of the economic crisis arising out of the coronavirus epidemic, the state government had issued an order on April 24 last year to freeze the payment of dearness allowance to state employees and teachers and dearness relief to pensioners from January 1, 2020 to June 30, 2021, on the lines of the Centre. Last month, with the removal of the moratorium on the payment of DA-DR at an increased rate, the Union government issued an order to pay DA at the rate of 28 per cent to Central employees from July.