7th Pay Commission Latest News: 'Special Allowance' extended for These Central government employees

After announcing restoration of DA, DR benefits to the central government employees and pensioners, the government has announced 'monetary incentives' for a section of officers. This special allowance (monetary incentives) has been extended to officers belonging to North East Cadres of All India services to the All India Service (AIS) officers working in the Union Territory of Ladakh. 

"It has now been decided to extend the provisions of additional monetary incentives to the All India Service officers working in UT of Ladakh, subject to ceiling, and instructions issued in this regard from time to time," said Devendra Kumar, Under Secretary to Government of India, in a letter to chief secretaries of all state governments.  

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Now, AIS officers posted in the UT of Ladakh will get an addition special allowance and special duty allowance payable at 20 per cent and 10 per cent of their basic salary respectively. 

Earlier, the Narendra Modi government had announced that central government employees (CGEs) and pensioners will be getting full benefits of Dearness Allowance (DA) and Dearness Relief (DR), effective July 1.  

Currently, they are getting DA at 17 per cent after the government had chosen to freeze their DA in the view of Covid 19 pandemic last year. Around 50 lakh central government employees and about 65 lakh pensioners are set to benefit from this move. It is expected that final DA that central government employees will get is 28 % (17% + 11%) 

“As and when the decision to release the future installments of Dearness Allowance due from 01.07.2021 is taken, 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,” Anurag Thakur, the Minister of State (MoS) for Finance, had said earlier in a written reply to Rajya Sabha