The State Government has hiked the rate of Dearness Allowance (DA) for employees and Dearness Relief (DR) for pensioners by seven per cent each.
With this revision, the rate of DA received by the employees and DR received by the pensioners will increase from 183 per cent to 200 per cent.
The employees and pensioners will get benefit of this hike with effect from January 1, 2014. Two separate circulars were issued by the Finance Department in this regard. According to the circular, those State Government employees who had given option for getting salary under the Chhattisgarh Pay Revision Rule 1988 or those whose pay were not revised due to some reasons, were getting DA at the rate of 183% since July 1, 2013.
With revision of the rates, they will get the DA at the rate of 200% from January 1, 2014.
Similarly, the DR rate of the pensioners of the State Government, who are receiving pension under Chhattisgarh Pay Revision Rule 1998, has been increased to 200% from January 1, 2014.
The pensioners were also getting DR at the rate of 183% since July 1, 2013 as per the order of the State government dated December 31, 2013.
Both the circulars have been forwarded to Chairman, Revenue Board (Bilaspur), head of departments, divisional commissioners, district collectors and all concerned offices. The circulars have also been uploaded on the website of the Finance Department.