At present, employees in the state are getting dearness allowance at the rate of 34% while pensioners in Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh are getting 28% DR.
7th pay commission pensioners of Madhya Pradesh can get a big gift soon. Actually dearness relief can be increased to 33% (DR Hike). The government of Chhattisgarh has increased the dearness relief of its pensioners from 28 to 33%. A letter was also written by the Government of Madhya Pradesh to the Government of Chhattisgarh for an increase of 5%.
Now an increase in dearness relief can be announced for four and a half lakh pensioners of the state. According to the State Reorganization Act, consent between Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh is necessary for increasing the dearness relief of pensioners in Madhya Pradesh. The Government of Chhattisgarh has increased the dearness relief of its pensioners at the rate of 5%.
After the increase of 5%, the dearness relief of the employees of Chhattisgarh has increased to 33%. Explain that 76% of the expenditure on the pension of the employees before the state bifurcation is borne by Madhya Pradesh while 24% is borne by Chhattisgarh. The number of employees of flowers of the state division is close to 40 thousand.
33% dearness relief has been provided to pensioners from 1 October. Now the officials of the Finance Department say that like the dearness allowance of the state government employees, the cabinet has decided to increase the dearness relief. Orders will be issued soon. The order is likely to be issued by this week after the Chief Minister’s approval.
Senior Vice President of Madhya Pradesh Pensioners Association says that from the date 34% dearness allowance is being given to the employees. From that time the dearness relief should be increased. After the 5% increase in Dearness Relief, 1% less Dearness Relief will be provided to the pensioner as compared to the Dearness Relief of Rs.
Not only this, dearness relief at the rate of 189% is being provided to the pensioners getting the sixth pay scale. With the increase in dearness relief, dearness relief for pensioners at the rate of 12% will increase to 201%.
