7th Pay Commission DA Hike: The coming month will bring tremendous happiness for the central employees. Actually, there is going to be a bumper jump in their dearness allowance. After waiting for 4 months, once again their dearness allowance is going to increase. The evening of 31 July means a lot to the central employees. The numbers of AICPI index will be released.
7th Pay Commission DA Hike: Central employees are going to get another good news soon. DA and DR of more than 1 crore central employees and pensioners are going to increase. Dearness Allowance (DA Hike) is to increase for the second half of the year 2023 as well. The coming month will bring tremendous happiness for the central employees. Actually, there is going to be a bumper jump in their dearness allowance. After waiting for 4 months, once again his Dearness Allowance (DA) is going to increase. The evening of 31 July means a lot for the Central Government employees. The numbers of AICPI index will be released. It is not yet decided when it will be announced. But, speculations have been made that payment will be made in September.
That means, till September, central employees will be paid at the rate of 42 per cent. After this, the dearness allowance (DA Hike) of July 2023 will be announced. The government is currently paying dearness allowance at the rate of 42 per cent. It will take time to announce the dearness allowance for July 2023, but on the evening of July 31, it will be confirmed that how much dearness allowance has increased.
DA may increase by 4 percent more
The dearness allowance for July 2023 has not been decided yet. But, it is clear from the AICPI index data from January to June 2023 that it is going to increase by 4 percent. After increasing by 4 percent, dearness allowance will reach 46 percent. According to government sources, it can be announced in September. The government can give good news to central employees and pensioners by increasing the dearness allowance. However, its payment will be applicable only from July 2023 next year. The arrears of the remaining two months will be given to the employees.
How will 46 percent be paid
If there is an increase of 4 percent in dearness allowance in July 2023 as well, then from July 2021, there would have been a total increase of 15 percent in DA. In July 2021, dearness allowance which was stopped for one and a half years, DA was increased by 17 percent. After that, it was increased by 3 percent for July 2021, 3 percent in January 2022, 4 percent in July 2022 and then 4 percent for January 2023. Overall it has reached 42 percent. Now in July 2023, once again there is a jump of 4 percent. In such a situation, it will now reach 46 percent. If we look at the calculation from 2021, then there has been an increase of about 15 percent in dearness allowance in one and a half year.
There will be a big jump in HRA too
After the Dearness Allowance under the 7th Pay Commission, there is also an increase in HRA i.e. House Rent Allowance. However, this increase will happen after the next half year and that too when the dearness allowance crosses 50 per cent. At present, HRA is divided into three categories of cities, named X, Y, Z. Now central employee living in X city will get more HRA and employees living in Y and Z city will get less HRA. According to the city, 27 percent, 18 percent and 9 percent house rent allowance is available. When the DA crosses 50%, the HRA for X, Y and Z cities will be reduced to 30%, 20% and 10% respectively.
