7th Pay Commission latest news today: The government has made its stand clear regarding increasing the monthly basic salary of central employees. The government has told what it is going to do on the basic salary.
7th Pay Commission Latest News Today: Central Government Employees and Pensioners are now getting increased Dearness Allowance. But, the central employees still got disappointment on one front.
The government has shown strictness about the idea of increasing the monthly basic salary of central employees. Let us know what the government has said on this issue?
No idea to increase Basic Pay
According to Minister of State for Finance Pankaj Chaudhary, the central government is not considering any such scheme. He also said that the fitment factor of 2.57 was implemented uniformly for all categories of employees only for the purpose of fixation of pay in the revised pay structure based on the recommendations of the 7th Central Pay Commission.
The question was asked to the Minister of State for Finance whether the Central Government is now actively considering increasing the monthly basic pay of the employees after the restoration of dearness allowance and dearness relief as per the fitment factor based on the recommendations of the 7th Pay Commission.
Now DA will be 31%
Let us tell you that earlier the central employees were getting 17% DA. From July 1, 2021, it has been increased to 28%. DA was increased by 4 percent in January 2020, then by 3 percent in June 2020 and by 4 percent in January 2021. Now these three installments have to be paid. But, the employees are still waiting for the dearness allowance data for June 2021.
This data can be released soon. Dearness allowance has increased by 3 percent under the 7th Pay Commission. That is, now the total DA has increased to 31 percent. 31% will be paid with this month’s salary.
HRA increased along with DA
Not only this, along with increasing dearness allowance, the government has also ordered to increase the House Rent Allowance (HRA) of central employees. Let us tell you that according to the rules, HRA has been increased because, dearness allowance has exceeded 25%. Therefore, the central government has also increased the house rent allowance to 27%.
In fact, the Department of Expenditure had issued an order on 7 July 2017 in which it was said that when dearness allowance will exceed 25%. So the house HRA will be revised. Since July 1, Dearness Allowance has increased to 28%, so it is necessary to revise HRA as well.
