The government on Thursday announced a five per cent increase in the dearness allowance for the Central government employees and pensioners, with effect from July this year, entailing an outgo of about Rs 2,904 crore this fiscal.
The impact for the current fiscal would be Rs 2903.55 crore, as the increase would be effective for nine months only from July to March.
The five per cent increase in the DA for the employees and dearness relief for pensioners would be over the existing rate of 22 per cent of the basic pay or pension, the minister said.
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