7th Pay Commission DA Date: Central government employees to get 28% dearness allowance hike from this day

Amid the daily surge in coronavirus cases, there is a sigh of relief and good news for the central government employees. The Narendra Modi led government has agreed to release the pending dearness allowance (DA) and dearness relief (DR) of employees and pensioners from July 1, 2021.

Due to the outbreak of coronavirus last year, the government had halted the three instalments of DA and DR of employees and pensioners in January 2020, July 2020 and January 2021.

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The government has informed about the same in the Parliament. Anurag Singh Thakur, Minister of State for Finance, in a written reply to the Rajya Sabha said 'The decision to release the future instalments of Dearness Allowance due from 01.07.2021 is taken and the rates of DA as effective from 01.01.2020, 01.07.2020 and 01.01. 2021 will be restored prospectively and will be subsumed in the cumulative revised rates effective from 01.07.2021.'

Now the central government employees and pensioners will not have to wait too long to receive the increased salary in their accounts.

The dearness allowance is likely to increase by 11 percent from the current rate of 17 percent to a total hike of 28 percent cumulatively. 

The increase in the DA will include a 3 percent hike from January to June 2020, a 4 percent from July to December 2020, and another 4 percent hike from January to June 2021 that is (17 + 4 + 3 + 4) 28 percent.

Recently, the central government has also announced an increase in the maximum limit of family pension for government pensioners. The increase will be by almost two and a half times. The maximum limit of family pension till now was Rs 45,000 per month which has now been raised to Rs 1.25 lakh per month.