On the one hand, there may be an increase in the dearness allowance of the employees for the next half year. At the same time, a big update has also come out on the outstanding arrears of 18 months. What employees need to know.
Employees, 18 Months DA Arrears: There is an important update for the employees. In fact, the demand for payment of outstanding arrears of 18 months has been being made by the employees and pensioners for a long time. His dearness allowance was stopped during Corona. With the improvement in the situation, the discussion of payment of dearness relief by the employee has started once again. At the same time, a letter has been written by the National Council of Staff Side to the Cabinet Secretary.
Letters sent to cabinet secretary
Even before this letters have been sent to the cabinet secretary several times. 34400 crore will be paid for the arrears of 62 lakh pensioners including 47 lakh central government employees. For this, the fight can be started again. On the other hand, senior member of National Joint Council of Action and Secretary of AIDS gave important information. He said that along with the demand for restoration of old pension, the fight will be fought once again for the arrears of 18 months. A letter has been written by the Cabinet Secretary for payment of arrears. In this matter, once again the forecast of the meeting is being expressed.
Earlier, with the beginning of the second phase of the budget session of Parliament, the issue of outstanding arrears of 18 months of central employees and pensioners was raised. A question was asked to the Central Government during the Question Hour on this issue that arose in the month of March. To which he gave an important reply. On this question, the central government, while giving clarification on its behalf, had said that at present there is no plan to issue DA arrears.
Government’s answer
Union Minister of State for Finance Pankaj Chowdhary had replied in writing that there is no plan to give arrears of three installments of dearness allowance and dearness relief to employees and pensioners. In fact, it was decided to freeze the DA of the employees to be issued on 1 January 2020, 1 July 2020 and 1 January 2021.
Rs 34400 crore saved
During this, Pankaj Chowdhary had said that provision of funds had to be made for the welfare scheme. The effect of which was seen in 2020-21. In such a situation, the arrears of dearness allowance have not been paid. Still the government’s fiscal deficit is twice the level fixed under the FRBM Act. Due to which it is not possible to pay the arrears. Giving information during this, the Minister of State for Finance told in the House that due to non-payment of arrears, the government has seen a saving of ₹ 34400 crore. Which was spent on dealing with the impact created by the epidemic.
JCM secretary Shiv Gopal Mishra raised the issue in a meeting with the cabinet secretary. It was hoped that the dues would be paid to the employees soon. However, this has been denied in the budget session. According to the employees’ organization, the Supreme Court has decided that in such a case, the employees are paid with 6 percent interest.
New policy can be adopted by the employees organization
Here, AIDS General Secretary Mr. Kumar says that the government has a flaw in its mind. Payment of Dearness Allowance and Dearness Relief for 18 months has been put on hold. The employees’ organization says that the representatives have given options to the government for payment, but none of the options are being accepted by the government.
Same again for arrears of 18 months a new policy can be adopted by the employee organization. Preparations can be started to surround the government on the demand of arrear payment including the demand of old pension. For this once again a letter has been written to the Finance Secretary.
